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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

Denis Diderot

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal 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
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
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
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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

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