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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Denis Diderot

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth

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