Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

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.

Education is the transformation of civilisation

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.