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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

Denis Diderot

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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

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