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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Denis Diderot

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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote 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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
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

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