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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

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
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
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
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
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
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur

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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