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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

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
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
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
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
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur

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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