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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Denis Diderot

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
DENIS DIDEROT

Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
DENIS DIDEROT

Evidence Integrity Virtue
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
DENIS DIDEROT

Hands King Priest
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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Bad Country Goodness Government Moral
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
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
DENIS DIDEROT

Believe God Himself Touch
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
DENIS DIDEROT

Atheist God Injurious
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
DENIS DIDEROT

Design Disturb Trouble True
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
DENIS DIDEROT

Heart Known Wisdom
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
DENIS DIDEROT

Fine Himself Live Man Peace Possession Purity Religious
I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
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
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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Convenience Moral Perception

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

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