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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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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