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

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
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
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
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth

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