To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Yes, I'm a fan of living some part of each day with my head in the clouds.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.