Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.