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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Denis Diderot

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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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Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

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Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Savage Scale
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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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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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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Object
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Production Willing
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.

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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Wicked
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

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