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Denis Diderot

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
DENIS DIDEROT

Absurd Best Lover People
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
DENIS DIDEROT

Poetry Vast Wild
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
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
DENIS DIDEROT

Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
DENIS DIDEROT

Believe God Himself Touch
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order

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