Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

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.

You are who you are and that's the most beautiful thing in the world.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.