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For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

Denis Diderot

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
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
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

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