If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

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

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.