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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

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
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

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