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

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.