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Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Denis Diderot

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
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
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.
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Myself Prostitute Thinking
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
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Himself Paint Reveal Writing
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
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Anand Thakur
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste

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