The world is a good judge of things, for it is in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences have two extremes which meet. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that re...
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.
We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
