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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

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
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
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
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence

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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