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You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Denis Diderot

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
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Beautiful Crazy Drive Enough Wisdom Woman
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
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
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
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 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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
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Philosophy Religion Separate
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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Anand Thakur
Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.
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Destroy Passion Philosophy Prejudice
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
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Philosophy Road

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