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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Denis Diderot

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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
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
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
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step

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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