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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
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Path Step Truth
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
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
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
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Death Fear Happiness Justice Virtue
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
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
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
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
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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Happiness Oneself Responsibility
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

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