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

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.

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.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

Life without love is empty

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.