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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.

Denis Diderot

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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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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Dignity Man Myself Willing
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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
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
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
DENIS DIDEROT

Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense

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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