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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

Denis Diderot

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.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
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
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur

Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

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