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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

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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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
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
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Astonishment Eyes Move Myself
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
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
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
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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Anand Thakur

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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