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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Denis Diderot

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
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
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
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
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
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
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Anand Thakur
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
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
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Every man has his dignity. I’m willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Dignity Man Myself Willing
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive

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