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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

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
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
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
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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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
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
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

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