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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

Denis Diderot

Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

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Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

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