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

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others…

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.

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

Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him …

As formas superiores do pensamento tem uma tendencia fatal a tornar-se na futura lei revelada: e toda a filosofia termina, nos seus velhos dias, por ser religi…

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.