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When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though los...more

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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

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The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first i...more

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I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed e...more

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There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.