How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going?

Even if Aristotle was not an atheist in the sense that he directly and openly attacked the divine . . . one could say that he was one in a broader sense, because his ideas on divinity indirectly tend to undermine it and destroy it.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.