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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

Denis Diderot

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
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
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.

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