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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Denis Diderot

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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote 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
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
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
You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT

One Liner Yourself
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
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
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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Dignity Man Myself Willing
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
DENIS DIDEROT

Delight Move Surprise Yourself
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
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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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

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