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" It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. "

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" Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. "

" 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. "

" There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. "

" The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. "

" There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. "

" Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. "

" There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. "

" His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. "

" There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. "

" The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. "

" Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. "

" Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. "

" Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. "

" Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. "

" Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. "

" From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. "

" Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. "

" There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father. "

" Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. "

" 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. "

" Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. "

" The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. "

" The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. "

" Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. "

" The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children. "

" We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. "

" Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. "

" The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. "

" All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. "

" There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. "