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The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

Denis Diderot

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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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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
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.
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Anand Thakur
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature

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