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Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

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Denis Diderot
Age: 70 †
Born: 1713
Born: October 5
Died: 1784
Died: July 31
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But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious!
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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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 things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
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There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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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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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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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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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
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The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
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