In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
DENIS DIDEROT
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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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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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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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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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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