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It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Denis Diderot

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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
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
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility

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