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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

Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road
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
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
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
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
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

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

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