Philosophical Thoughts

Philosophical Thoughts (French: Pensées philosophiques) is a 1746 book composed by Denis Diderot; it was his first original work.

[1][2] In the book, Diderot argued that both reason and feeling (emotion) were required to establish harmony.

Cannot you see that the rogue has done no more than change one pair of crutches for another?...Would a God full of goodwill find pleasure in bathing in tears?

If criminals had to appease the fury of a tyrant, what more could be expected of them than this?People begin to speak to us of God too soon, and another mistake is that his presence is not sufficiently insisted upon.

Men have banished God from their company and have hidden him in a sanctuary; the walls of a temple shut him in, he has no existence beyond.

If I had a child to bring up, I would make his God his companion in such a real sense that he would perhaps find it less difficult to become an atheist, than to escape his presence.