The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.