Page 601, Volume 2 others (such as Diderot) employed a genuine social psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM] Reference

"Diderot," says Voltaire, "is too hot an oven, everything that is baked in it getting burnt.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Regime] Reference

"Diderot," said she, "is a hundred years old in many respects, but in others he is no more than ten.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire of Russia] Reference

Thanks for "Diderot": want of a portrait: sketch of the "Hume": Hume not half a sceptic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

Oh, who would dare to touch a subject handled by Diderot?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes] Reference

Diderot says: "Genius is the higher activity of the soul.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Preaching and Paganism] Reference

Diderot the "Encyclopædia" would never have been achieved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Diderot; 'they always prefer the difficult to the beautiful!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Diderot came once, "eyed her epicurean friends," and came no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

M. Villey quotes Diderot as affirming that the blind cannot imagine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference

She flattered Diderot, and sent him a present of 66,000 francs (£2400).    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

Vergniaud, and Robespierre had succeeded Voltaire, Diderot, and d'Alembert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Voltaire and Diderot at the Cafe Procope:   “You're full of escargots!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Will the Poetic Violence End?] Reference

"Diderot and the Encyclopædists," such fine severity is conspicuously absent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

To these he is a dealer in oracles, at second-hand, from Voltaire and Diderot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

French writer Diderot, and afterwards ably discussed by Henry Irving and Coquelin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference

Diderot (1713-1784) was born to be an encyclopædist, and a captain of encyclopædists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Diderot says it nicely, "Happiest are the people who give the most happiness to others.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Randy Taran: How Your Sense of Style and Mood Go Hand-in-Hand] Reference

The first of these is indicated in a letter from Diderot to Mlle. Voland, dated July 12.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference

Voltaire's criticism provoked replies in England and a defense from Diderot, who shared with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

When Montesquieu died, only Diderot, among Parisian men of letters, followed him to his tomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Condillac the friend of Diderot but to his continuator Taine whose dictum we have already quoted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference

Diderot compared Richardson, as the father of the English novel, to Homer, father of epic poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference

These be thy gods, O Atheism! one, in reading Mr. Morley on Diderot, is tempted again and again to exclaim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Then he paused a second to add that, of course, Goethe, like the encyclopedist Diderot, was a novelist on the side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yellow Dining Room] Reference

It is like Russia, your society; according to the only decent words of the obscene Diderot, 'rotten before mature!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

On the other hand, it is simply just to say that hardly anybody but Diderot could have achieved the "Encyclopædia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Diderot produced no signal independent and original work of his own; probably he could not have produced such a work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

I do not know precisely whether these last words, which are slightly pessimistic, are those of the good Diderot himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

We have already, in discussing Voltaire, adverted sufficiently to Mr. John Morley's volumes in honor of Diderot and his compeers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Diderot declared that the legacy of Madame de Pompadour consisted of the art she inspired and commissioned, and "a handful of dust.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Artful Adultery] Reference

Diderot and D'Alembert are the only men whose names appear on the title-page of the "Encyclopædia;" but Voltaire, Rousseau, Turgot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference