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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Denis Diderot

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

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