Denis Diderot:
(Langres, 5 October[1] 1713 – Paris, 31 July 1784).
French writer and philosopher, art critic and a prominent figure in the radical Enlightenment, with Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) who could be called its precursors. He was editor of the Encyclopédie with Jean le Rond d’Alembert between 1750 and 1776. He wrote about 6,000 of the 72,000 articles. In 1773, he undertook a journalistic tour of Holland. Diderot was for freedom of speech and religion and contributed to literature with his Jacques le Fataliste, a satirical novel through which he denounced conventions about novels and examined free will.
Full we drink the flattering lie, and drop by drop we swallow the bitter truth.
