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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.

Denis Diderot

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
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
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
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility

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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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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