3 Denis Diderot Quotes on Theology

Denis Diderot quotes on theology

4. Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

35. Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

66. Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world. What is it, this egg, before the seed is introduced into it? An insentient mass. And after the seed has been introduced to into it? What is it then? An insentient mass. For what is the seed itself other than a crude and inanimate fluid? How is this mass to make a transition to a different structure, to sentience, to life? Through heat. And what will produce that heat in it? Motion.