“If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.”

French philosopher, art critic, and writer

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer of the Enlightenment, best known as a co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a central figure in the intellectual life of eighteenth-century France. His work is closely tied to the Encyclopédie, the ambitious project that gathered knowledge across many fields and helped shape Enlightenment thought.