Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.