Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Only the bad man is alone.

If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.