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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Denis Diderot

Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
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
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
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
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important

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