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

Denis Diderot

Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
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Impartial Path Step Truth
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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God Novel Rare
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
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Creation Dangerous Mad Man Occasion Religion
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
Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
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Authority Break Goodness Oneself Privacy
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
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Anand Thakur
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
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 pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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Anand Thakur

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