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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Descartes said I think, therefore I am. Helvetius wants to say I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly. I prefer Hobbes who claims that in order to draw a conclusion which takes us somewhere, we must say, I feel, I think, I judge therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.Denis Diderot
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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