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I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
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Demand Finding Oneself Seek Truth
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

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