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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Denis Diderot

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
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
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive

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