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First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

Denis Diderot

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
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
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
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
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

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