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There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Denis Diderot

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Heart Known Wisdom
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
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
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
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare

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