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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Denis Diderot

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
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
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth

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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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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