Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. "

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

" Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. "

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

" It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. "

" From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. "

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

" 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. "

" The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. "

" Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. "

" The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. "

" The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. "

" In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. "

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

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

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

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

" It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. "

" 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. "

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

" Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "

" We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. "

" Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. "

" People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. "

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