Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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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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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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