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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

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
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
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
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Bitter Lying Swallow Truth
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
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
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status

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.

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