Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.

Can a broken cisterns hold water?

We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack.

I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.

No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

But I love to be outdoors. I prefer being outdoors to, you know, being inside.

Think through whom you are trying to reach. Tailor what you do and how you do it to appeal to those communities.