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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce

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