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Denis Diderot

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
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
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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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur

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