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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

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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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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