This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopot…

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an 'intellectual' - find out how he feels about astrology.

Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions egalement commodes, qui l'une et l'autre nous dispensent de reflechir.

We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.