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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

Denis Diderot

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
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
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

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

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