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Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Denis Diderot

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
DENIS DIDEROT

Control Order People Yourself
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
DENIS DIDEROT

Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
DENIS DIDEROT

Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
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
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
DENIS DIDEROT

Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
DENIS DIDEROT

Association Catch Ourselves Vice
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
My ideas are my whores.
DENIS DIDEROT

Ideas One Liner Whore
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Arouse Patriot Society

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