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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

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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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
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
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play 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
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking

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