The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

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.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.Lake

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. - Ward 9

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Christina Aguilera finally announced her pregnancy. Thanks for waiting until your third trimester to get the word out—why not just wait until you’re crowning?

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

Fake friends are like shadows. They follow you in the sun and leave you in the dark.