Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.