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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Denis Diderot

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
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
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
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
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
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
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
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 Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

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