Tao Te Ching
Encyclopédie
By Diderot
Denis Diderot and co-edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
17 volumes of text, 11 volumes of plates, 74,000 articles, more than 130 contributors; the first encyclopedia that described mechanical arts and to include contributions from many different people, it was a clear representation of thought during the Enlightenment period of history. The goal of this work was "to change the way people think" in an attempt to include all of the world’s knowledge in one place. It broke the Catholic Church’s monopoly on knowledge, helped clarify the social issues culminating in the French Revolution, undermined old ideas and promulgated new ones. It had a big impact on all of Europe and this extended throughout the world and down into modern times.
Quotes from Encyclopédie
“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”
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“As for the exterior religion of buddhism, the principal point of its doctrine is that the souls of men and of animals are immortal; that they are originally of the same substanace, and they they differ only according to the different bodies they animate”
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“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”
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“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
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“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
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“Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.”
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“The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.”
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“the truths of feeling are more unshakable than the truths of logical demonstration”
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“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
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