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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Desire Fact Production True Willing
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
DENIS DIDEROT

Believe God Himself Touch
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

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