Quotes by Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot spent twenty-five years editing the Encyclopédie, a seventeen-volume attempt to gather all human knowledge and, between the lines, to undermine clerical authority. It was suppressed twice and he continued anyway, discovering late on that his printer had been censoring the proofs. He wrote fiction and art criticism, was briefly imprisoned, and sold his library to Catherine the Great on terms that let him keep it. He is quoted for the anticlerical epigrams.