Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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.
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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.
Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
There is only one duty; that is to be happy.
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.
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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