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- Knowledge
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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