By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

All perception is colored by emotion.

If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.