Scepticism Is The First Step Toward Truth.

If There Were A Reason For Preferring The Christian Religion To Natural Religion, It Would Be Because The Former Offers Us, On The Nature Of God And Man, Enlightenment That The Latter Lacks. Now, This Is Not At All The Case; For Christianity, Instead Of Clarifying, Gives Rise To An Infinite Multitude Of Obscurities And Difficulties.

Does Anyone Really Know Where They're Going To?

And His Hands Would Plait The Priest's Entrails, For Want Of A Rope, To Strangle Kings.

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 Believe That They Do. Wealth Will Be The Highest Virtue, Poverty The Greatest Vice.

When One Compares The Talents One Has With Those Of A Leibniz , One Is Tempted To Throw Away One's Books And Go Die Quietly In The Dark Of Some Forgotten Corner.