Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

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.

Sometimes it might be kinder to kill a man, than to take his dreams from him.

If an angel could admit she was wrong about a vampire, maybe there was hope forthe werepanthers in East Hampton after all.

I have come to the conclusion that there has never been an honest investigation by any authoritative body in the history of the world.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation.

It is only the quietest one who can hear all the voices of the world; only the shadows can see all the lights!

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven

Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion.