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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

How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
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Hard Mad Oneself Suffering
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
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Action Direction Generous Object
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur

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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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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