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One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.