« The animal endowed with reason is the only one that kills its congener out of conviction, and not under the influence of need. To have honor, reason, prestige, not life saves. The only one who turns his aggression into an institution, a duel or a holy war. Or his instinct in duty, patriotic or mystical, because he commands his behaviors to convictions, or his actuality to the unusual - visions, legends, things gone or expected. Between the niche where he lives and the material universe, between his whole and the whole, he slips airy nothings, which weigh more than the fact. »

« The principle of secularism places freedom of conscience (whether or not to have a religion) upstream and above what is called "religious freedom" in some countries (that of being able to choose a religion provided one has one). »

« We are somewhat or no, overprotected Europeans, by 'Cotard syndrome'. This French psychiatrist has attached his name, since 1882, to a singular delirium, in the process of trivialization: melancholic immortality. The sick imagine themselves doomed to an endless survival, without possible death. Far from exalting them, this assurance plunges them into a deep depression. These zombies have no name, no attachment, no country. They're floating. Reality fades away. And the soul with it. Club Med in perpetuity. Those who believed in God have no idea. And they suffer, imploring the treating physician to deliver them from immortality. Basically, there are only two categories of beings who can afford the luxury of not believing in anything: autistic people and gods. »