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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Denis Diderot

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
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
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
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential

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