Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.Denis Diderot
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
Denis Diderot
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis Diderot
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature
Denis Diderot
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Denis Diderot
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