The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

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

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

The world is my representation