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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Denis Diderot

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.
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Definition Himself Man Strength Weakness
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
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
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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 not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

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