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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
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
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

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