The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.