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First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

Denis Diderot

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
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
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
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
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

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

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