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Denis Diderot
: The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
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The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
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The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.
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Harry S Truman :
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The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
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Mao Zedong :
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Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow :
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All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
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Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul – his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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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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Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
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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."
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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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...
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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.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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