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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
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
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

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