Famous quotes containing the word diderot:
“It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“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.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–84)
“The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)