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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

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