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To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Denis Diderot

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
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
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

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