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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Denis Diderot

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People

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