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.
DENIS DIDEROT
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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How easy it is to tell tales!
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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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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We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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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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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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