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The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Denis Diderot

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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Abstract Relationship Sign Study
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
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
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
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
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
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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Atheist God Injurious
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Adult Eyes Infant Man Old
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
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
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself

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