Denis Diderot Quotes

إيه لو كنتُ أُجيد الكلام مثلما أجيد التفكير! لكنه كان مكتوباً فوق أن تكون الأشياء في رأسي ، وأن لا تأتي الكلمات.

Bizim kadar budala olmayanları akıllı saymayız.

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.

It is better to reveal a weakness than allow oneself be suspected of a vice.

ليس من الناس من يهوى المشي أكثر من العُرج

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

The first oath sworn by two creatures of flesh and blood was at the foot of a rock that was turning into dust. They called upon the heavens (which are never the same from one instant to the next) to witness their constancy. Although everything inside them and outside of them was changing, they believed their hearts to be immune to change. Oh children! You are still children…

When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.

There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.