Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will qui….

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything....

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose….

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either ….

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you t….

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state..

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it..

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine….

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search..

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive..

Let each of us examine his thoughts.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything..

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers..

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years..

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to….

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through ….

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an….

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reas….

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you ….

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever..

The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.].