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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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
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.
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Difficult God Home Raining
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility

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