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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Denis Diderot

And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
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
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
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

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