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And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

Denis Diderot

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
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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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
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
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
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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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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

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