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“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
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“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”
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“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future.”
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“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?”
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“What a chimera then is man! What a novelty! What a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth; depositary of truth, a sink of uncertainty and error; the pride and refuse of the...”
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“it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.”
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“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
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“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.”
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“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
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“Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.”
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“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.”
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“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.”
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“Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.”
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“Evil is easy, and has infinite forms; good is almost unique.”
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“Nothing gives certainty but truth; nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.”
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“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”
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“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
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“The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
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“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.”
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“There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.”
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“if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.”
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“Nature confutes the sceptics, and reason confutes the dogmatists.”
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“Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference”
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“The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.”
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“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.”
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“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end.”
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“Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. . . . If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.”
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“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”
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“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable.”
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“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.”
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“Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.”
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“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”
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“lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity”
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“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the want of contradiction a sign of truth.”
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“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
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“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.”
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“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us.”
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“The last proceeding of reason is to recognise that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.”
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“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
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“the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand”
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“The property of power is to protect.”
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“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”
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“Those honour Nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything, even on theology.”
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“Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”
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“Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.”
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“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.”
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“To pity the unfortunate is not contrary to lust. On the contrary, we can quite well give such evidence of friendship, and acquire the reputation of kindly feeling, without giving anything. ”
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“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is of advantage that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc.”
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“dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
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