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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

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
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

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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