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

Denis Diderot

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
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
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
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
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Bad Company Innocent Instruction Loss One Prejudice
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
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
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

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

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