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“Distance is a great promoter of admiration.”

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Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer who played a pivotal role in the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work on the Encyclopédie, which aimed to compile all the knowledge of the time into a single work. more

“How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.”

“I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.”

Thinking Want Beautiful Known Who You Are Women Want Being Beautiful

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?”

Men Giving Mind Ideas Quality Atheism Capacity Positive Atheism Theology Agents Faculty Precise Contradictory Marvellous Ineffable Boon Conceiving

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.”

Religious Atheism Positive Atheism Tolerance Antidote Fanaticism Freedom Of Thought

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.”

Men Common Opinion Judgment Common Sense Contradiction Rejects Absurdity Uncommon

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.”

Ideas War Names Nations Blood Selfish Diverse Savages Adore Furious Thirsty

Author:Baron d'Holbach

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