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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

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
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Allow Music Painting Performance Poetry Superstitious
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
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Anand Thakur
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
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.
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Greatness Mindset Moral Passion Raise Small Soul
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
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Design Disturb Trouble True
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
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step

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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