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If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

Denis Diderot

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
DENIS DIDEROT

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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
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

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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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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