Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far read more

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a read more

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.

There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.