- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
- Dazzling
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- Nov 07, 2020
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
- Flatters
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- Nov 07, 2020
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
- Make It Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to make it happen.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
- Divorces
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- Nov 07, 2020
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
- Fanaticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
- First Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good music is very close to primitive language.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
- Motive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
- Certainty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020