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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Denis Diderot

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
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
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
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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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
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
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
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

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