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The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

Denis Diderot

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
DENIS DIDEROT

Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
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
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
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

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