Several email newsletters I receive include a Quote of the Day. Some are funny, some profound, and some just wrong, IMHO. In this blog I will express my opinions when one strikes me as particularly obnoxious, or perhaps especially good.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Denis Diderot, writer, editor, philosopher
"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it." -- Denis Diderot, writer, editor, philosopher
Inconvenient? Indeed! Trust this prominent exponent of the French Enlightenment to cast the supreme battle of mankind in such terms. The fate of the world and of each individual man is decided by the response to moral precepts.
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