"Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs."
― Denis Diderot
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Religion
― Denis Diderot
More From Denis Diderot
- "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."
- "Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."
- "Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
More In Religion
- "Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people."― Doug E. Fresh
- "Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."― Frank Herbert
- "Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost."― David Mamet