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Denis Diderot

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Desire Fact Production True Willing
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
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Children Education Entertainment Man Preference

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