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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.

Denis Diderot

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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
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
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
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
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

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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