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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.

Denis Diderot

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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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
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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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
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
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Believe God Himself Touch
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Evidence Question Truth
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself

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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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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