“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
Denis Diderot
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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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“Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small- minded.”
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“We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.”
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“If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.”
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“Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.”
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“How did they meet? By chance, like everybody…. Where did they come from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Do we know where we are going?”
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“Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.”
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“Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.”
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“What is this world of ours? A complex entity subject to sudden changes which all indicate a tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings which follow one another, assert themselves and disappear; a fleeting symmetry; a momentary order.”
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“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good orbad.”
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“Gaiety–a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”
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“Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or increativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small- minded.”
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“His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.”
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“Distance is a great promoter of admiration!”
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“The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.”
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“All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.”
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“I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don’t remember ever having seen one weep.”
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“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
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“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”
Denis Diderot
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