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I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself

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