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

  • Good music is very close to primitive language.

  • When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

  • 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.

  • No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.