Denis Diderot
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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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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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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.