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

Denis Diderot

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
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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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
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 wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur

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

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