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Denis Diderot

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
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
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
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
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
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue

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