Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.