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| Denis Diderot
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. Distance is a great promoter of admiration! I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. 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 will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. 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. |
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