Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.