Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

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

To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

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