At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.