Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
Denis Diderot

You have to make it happen.
Denis Diderot

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
Denis Diderot

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Denis Diderot

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
Denis Diderot

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

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot