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Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

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
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
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Age Early Milk Myself
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
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
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
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

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