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Denis Diderot

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
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
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
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
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
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
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
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur

Only the bad man is alone.

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