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Here are some famous quotes by Denis Diderot:
1. ”Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
2. ”Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
3. ”The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
4. ”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.”
5. ”Skepticism is the first step toward truth.”
6. ”A man can become a philosopher only by being cured of all his illusions of wisdom.”
7. ”The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”
8. ”We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
9. ”The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
10. ”Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.”
These quotes reflect Diderot’s ideas on passion, freedom, knowledge, skepticism, and the role of philosophy in society.