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Denis Diderot

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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
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
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
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
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
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

Only the bad man is alone.

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