Time, Matter, Space - All, It May

To Prove The Gospels By A Miracle Is To Prove An Absurdity By Something Contrary To Nature.

A Thing Is Not Proved Just Because No One Has Ever Questioned It. What Has Never Been Gone Into Impartially Has Never Been Properly Gone Into. Hence Scepticism Is The First Step Toward Truth. It Must Be Applied Generally, Because It Is The Touchstone.

Only Passions, And Great Passions, Can Raise The Soul To Great Things. Without Them There Is No Sublimity, Either In Morals Or In Creativity. Art Returns To Infancy, And Virtue Becomes Small-minded.

It Seems To Me That If One Had Kept Silence Up To Now Regarding Religion, People Would Still Be Submerged In The Most Grotesque And Dangerous Superstition ... Regarding Government, We Would Still Be Groaning Under The Bonds Of Feudal Government ... Regarding Morals, We Would Still Be Having To Learn What Is Virtue And What Is Vice. To Forbid All These Discussions, The Only Ones Worthy Of Occupying A Good Mind, Is To Perpetuate The Reign Of Ignorance And Barbarism.

Those Who Fear The Facts Will Forever Try To Discredit The Fact-finders.