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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Denis Diderot

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 infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
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
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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

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