History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.