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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
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
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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