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Denis Diderot : All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. # Symbols

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Joseph Addison : " Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. " # Symbols

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V N Volosinov : " Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides with the domain of signs. They equate with one another. Wherever a sign is present, ideology is present, too. Everything ideological possesses semiotic value. " # Symbols

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Ludwig Wittgenstein : " But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?" (504) " # Symbols

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Hugo Ball : " The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? " # Symbols

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Friedrich Nietzsche : " Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. " # Symbols

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Charles Baudelaire : " The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. " # Symbols

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John Jay Chapman : " If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people. " # Symbols

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Ludwig Feuerbach : " The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. " # Symbols

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Albert Camus : " The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial. " # Symbols

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Umberto Eco : " Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all. " # Symbols

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Denis Diderot: " Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things." # Passion

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Denis Diderot: " Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." # Passion

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Denis Diderot: " We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates." # Virtue

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Denis Diderot: " We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." # Truth # Love # Flattery

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Denis Diderot: " Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism." # Fanatics and Fanaticism

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Denis Diderot: " Attributions to Diderot of similar statements also occur in various forms, ie: "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."" # Freedom # Kings # Critics and Criticism

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Denis Diderot: " Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to." # Dignity # Discretion # Truth

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Denis Diderot: " Reason is to the philosopher what grace is to the Christian. Grace causes the Christian to act, reason the philosopher. Other men are carried away by their passions, their actions not being preceded by reflection: these are the men who walk in darkness. On the other hand, the philosopher, even in his passions, acts only after reflection; he walks in the dark, but by a torch. The philosopher forms his principles from an infinity of particular observations. Most people adopt principles without thinking of the observations that have produced them, they believe the maxims exist, so to speak, by themselves. But the philosopher takes maxims from their source; he examines their origin; he knows their proper value, and he makes use of them only in so far as they suit him. Truth is not for the philosopher a mistress who corrupts his imagination and whom he believes to be found everywhere; he contents himself with being able to unravel it where he can perceive it. He does not confound it with probability; he takes for true what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is only probable. He does more, and here you have a great perfection of the philosopher: when he has no reason by which to judge, he knows how to live in suspension of judgment... The philosophical spirit is, then, a spirit of observation and exactness, which relates everything to true principles..." # Truth # Love # Action

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Denis Diderot: " I believe in God, although I live very happily with atheists... It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God." # Marriage # Atheism # Mistakes

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Denis Diderot: " It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire." # Desire

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