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The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Denis Diderot

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
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
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

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