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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Denis Diderot

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
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
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
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
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
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
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

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

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