I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

There is nothing higher than reason.