It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with.

Dance is so fascinating and I like collaborating with people a lot.

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.