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There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

Denis Diderot

Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT

One Liner Yourself
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
DENIS DIDEROT

Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
DENIS DIDEROT

Command Himself Man Nature Right

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