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I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

Denis Diderot

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
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
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
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
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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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

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