My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.