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

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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.

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

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

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.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

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.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

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

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

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

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

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

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