Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

As a rational being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.