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No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Denis Diderot

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
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

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