Denis Diderot najznámejšie citáty
„Láska uberá z ducha tým, ktorí ho majú, a dodáva ho tým, ktorí ho nemajú.“
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]
Potvrdené výroky, Filozofické spisy (1746)
Denis Diderot Citáty o láske
Denis Diderot: Citáty v angličtine
As quoted in The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations (1963) by Norbert Gutermam
Pensées Philosophiques (1746)
Paradoxe sur le Comédien (1773-1777)
As quoted in Against the Faith (1985) by Jim Herrick, p. 75
Variant translation: It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
“Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.”
As quoted in The Golden Treasury of Thought : A Gathering of Quotations from the Best Ancient and Modern Authors (1873) by Theodore Taylor, p. 227
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
“If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.”
Portraying a fictional conversation of Nicholas Saunderson with a priest, in ' Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter about the Blind] (1749), as quoted in Diderot and the Encyclopædists (1897) by John Morley, p. 92. Publication of this work resulted in Diderot being arrested and imprisoned.
“Spirit of the staircase" or "Staircase inspiration”
L'esprit de l'escalier
This phrase is a famous allusion to the witty remarks one thinks of when it is too late, as when one is leaving a meeting and going down the stairs. Paradoxe sur le Comédien (1773-1777)
“Gaiety — a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”
“Diseases"
Elements of Physiology (1875)
"Will, Freedom”
Elements of Physiology (1875)
La puissance qui s'acquiert par la violence n'est qu'une usurpation, et ne dure qu'autant que la force de celui qui commande l'emporte sur celle de ceux qui obéissent.
Article on Political Authority, Vol. 1 (1751)
L'Encyclopédie (1751-1766)
“Africans are always vicious... mostly inclined to lasciviousness, vengeance, theft and lies.”
As quoted in David Johnson, 'Representing the Cape "Hottentots", from the French Enlightenment to Post-Apartheid South Africa', Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40.4 (Summer 2007), 525-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30053727.
