At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

Always go hard and fast enough so that when you hit the ditch you can pull out the other side.

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.