Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.