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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.

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Acquiring Combination Experimentation Facts Knowledge Means Nature Observation Principal Reflection Result Them Three

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You have to make it happen.

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Happen Make Make It Happen You

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

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Elevate Great Great Things Only Passions Soul Things

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Any Bitter Find Flatters Lie Little Only Sip Swallow Truth Us

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

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Free King Last Man Never Priest Strangled Until Will

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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

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Topics: Civilized Harassment Impunity Inflict Kind Man May Societies Woman

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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Adjust Change Force Greatest Must Needed Things Times Viewpoint

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

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Beings Command Fellow His Human Human Beings Man Nature Received Right

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

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Best Doctor Find Run You

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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

~Denis Diderot

Topics: First First Step Philosophy Step Towards

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Editor

Born: October 5th, 1713

Died: July 31st, 1784

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