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Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.

Denis Diderot

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
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
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
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

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