What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
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.