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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

Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
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
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Essential Kind Respect Wicked Yourself
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
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
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
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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Blow Clear Finding Friendship Way
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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

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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