If Soldiers Were To Begin

If Soldiers Were To Begin To Think, Not One Of Them Would Remain In The Army.

The Greatest And Noblest Pleasure Which We Have In This World Is To Discover New Truths, And The Next Is To Shake Off Old Prejudices.

As To Your Newton, I Confess I Do Not Understand His Void And His Gravity; I Admit He Has Demonstrated The Movement Of The Heavenly Bodies With More Exactitude Than His Forerunners; But You Will Admit It Is An Absurdity To To Maintain The Existence Of Nothing.

I Think It Better To Keep A Profound Silence With Regard To The Christian Fables, Which Are Canonized By Their Antiquity And The Credulity Of Absurd And Insipid People.

Christianity - An Old Metaphysical Romance, Filled With Marvels, Contradictions, And Absurdity, Born In The Ardent Imagination Of Orientals, Has Spread Into Our Europe. Enthusiasts Have Purveyed It, Careerists Have Pretended To Accept It, Imbeciles Have Believed It.