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

Denis Diderot

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
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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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
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious

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