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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.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
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 is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation

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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