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Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
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
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots.
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Discussion Love Mad Mindset Myself Politics Present Taste
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step

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