Quotes by Diderot, Denis

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! >>

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them re >>

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory >>

Quotations about Senses

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses >>

The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscenc >>

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably go >>

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Diderot, Denis