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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
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 discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception

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