He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

God created woman to tame man.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.