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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.

Denis Diderot

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
DENIS DIDEROT

Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
DENIS DIDEROT

Admire Distance Greatness Promote
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
DENIS DIDEROT

Evidence Question Truth
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
DENIS DIDEROT

Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.
DENIS DIDEROT

Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce

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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