"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."
-Denis Diderot
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"Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.“
-Denis Diderot
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"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."
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"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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"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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"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."
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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."
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