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

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.

Be Positive is not just a blood type.

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.