The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.

They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.