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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

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
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Path Step Truth
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.
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Anand Thakur
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth

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