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The world is the house of the strong.

Denis Diderot

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
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
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
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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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
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
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
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

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