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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Denis Diderot

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
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
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
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
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People

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