We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.