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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
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
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
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
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
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
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
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur

I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

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I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.

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