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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

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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Force Memories Ourselves Sentence Truth
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
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
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
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
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
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
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
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
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
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
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
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
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
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Composition Rich

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