Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.