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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Denis Diderot

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Convenience Moral Perception
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
DENIS DIDEROT

Delight Move Surprise Yourself
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
DENIS DIDEROT

Philosophy Road
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

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