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Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

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
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
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth

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