Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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.
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
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