Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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.
Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.
Only the bad man is alone.
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
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.