“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”

“What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”

“In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."(Notebooks)”