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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Denis Diderot

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
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

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

Anand Thakur
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
DENIS DIDEROT

Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.

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