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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
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
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
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
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
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

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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