The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

What is not in nature can never be true.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.