“Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian. — Number VIII”

—  Denis Diderot, book Addition aux Pensées philosophiques

Addition aux Pensées philosophiques (1770)

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French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713–1784

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