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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

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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
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
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
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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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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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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