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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
My ideas are my whores.
DENIS DIDEROT

Ideas One Liner Whore
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
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
DENIS DIDEROT

Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
DENIS DIDEROT

Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save

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