Great man Quote by Denis Diderot

“A priest and a philosopher are two different things”

— Victor Hugo

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

— David Hume

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting…

— Ernest Renan

“An opulent priest is a contradiction.”

— Victor Hugo

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

— Bertrand Russell

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and…

— Garry Wills

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

— John Haynes Holmes

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

— Arthur Middleton

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

— Charles Kingsley