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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

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
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
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason

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