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Denis Diderot

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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
DENIS DIDEROT

Oneself Path Step
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
DENIS DIDEROT

Love Rob
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
DENIS DIDEROT

Poetry Savage Scale
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
DENIS DIDEROT

Difficult God Home Raining
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
DENIS DIDEROT

Necessary Order Shake Willing
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope

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