The devil is an angel too.

Consciousness is a disease.

Fear is the start of wisdom.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

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