"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

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Source : "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1821.

Denis Diderot

#Inspirational Quotes #Trust Quotes #Truth Quotes

“I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.”
“Picked up the yoga, put down the soda. My healthy mind...that's what's gon' help me over. Life of a stoner (if you still concerned), I never lose, I only win or learn; It's all about your state of mind.”

Source : Song: State Of Mind, 2014
“This is the better one. It's identical.”
“Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle, as well as the skill to use it well, truly makes a man the monarch of all he surveys. It realizes the ancient dream of the Jovian thunderbolt, and as such it is the embodiment of personal power. For this reason it exercises a curious influence over the minds of most men, and in its best examples it constitutes an object of affection unmatched by any other inanimate object.”
“If people stopped looking on their emotions as ethereal, almost inhuman processes, and realistically viewed them as being largely composed of perceptions, thoughts, evaluations, and internalized sentences, they would find it quite possible to work calmly and concertedly at changing them.”
“There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.”
“If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.”
“It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.”

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