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Denis Diderot

Quote of Denis Diderot - Let us hasten to make philosophy...


Biography - Denis Diderot:

French philosopher, art critic and writer.
Born: 1713 - Died: 1784
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

Let us hasten to make philosophy popular.


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Quote source: Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature

Wikisource - Diderot - Œuvres complètes (fr) 



Let us hasten to make philosophy popular.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Hâtons-nous de rendre la philosophie populaire !

German
Beeilen wir uns, die Philosophie unter die Leute zu bringen!




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See also...






Quotes for: philosophy


Quotes

Quotes about philosophy:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.






Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.











Quotes

Denis Diderot also said...


No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.





Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.





Only the passions, the great passions, can lift the soul to the greatest things.





There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.





We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.





Charity is a universal benevolence, and benevolence an habit of love.












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