Denis Diderot Quotes

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Dying is not a crime.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

Life is not yours to take.

One ought to be just before one is generous

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.