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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.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
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
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
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
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
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
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source

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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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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