Denis Diderot Sublime Quotations

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.