If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
— Denis Diderot
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
