| Quotes |
Topic |
| Admiration | Distance is a great promoter of admiration! |
| Advice | In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. |
| Immortality | The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. |
| Humanity | It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. |
| Literature | Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. |
| Maxim | Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. |
| Men and Women | There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. |
| Miscellaneous | When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. |
| Perspective | No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason. |
| Philosophy | The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. |
| Psychological Subjects | There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism. |
| Religion | Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. |
| Society | I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. |
| Theory | In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. |
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