05 October 2024

Happy Birthday, Diderot

Levitzky, Denis Diderot, 1773


But who, he used to ask, can ever boast of having enough experience? Has even he who flatters himself on being the most experienced of men never been fooled? And then, what man is there who is capable of correctly assessing the circumstances in which he finds himself? The calculations which we make in our heads and the one recorded on the register up above are two very different calculations.

Denis Diderot, born on this day in 1713, from Jacques the Fatalist

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