In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent.""I keep telling everyone that, " she said with a nonchalant shrug, "But you seem to be the only one to believe me.

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.

I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.

Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.