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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

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
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
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
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Anand Thakur
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 no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur

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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