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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.

Denis Diderot

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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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
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
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
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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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
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

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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