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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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