If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

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

Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

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.

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.