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Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
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
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth

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