Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

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.

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

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.

The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks.

Little beat big When Little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.

You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary.

Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

The car bomb is the poor man’s air force.

Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law enforcement officers have to release them into your communities.

In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

What got you here won't get you there.