When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing