There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they had rejected the doctrine of suffering as man's metaphysical fate, they proclaimed man's right to the pursuit of happiness and were determined to establish on earth the conditions required for man's proper existence, by the "unaided" power of their intellect.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men.