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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Denis Diderot

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
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Believe God Important
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
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Belief Law Myself Nation People Thinking
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
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Burden Gratitude Hard Time Hope
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
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Happiness Oneself Passion
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
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
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
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

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