Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.