Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.