Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels ….

Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by dispelling the clou….

If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception emb….

In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for some ….

If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or kno….

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

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

What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to reality, to reaso….

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

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

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

The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him wit….

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

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

People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matte….

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

How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Ma….

Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is su….

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason..

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover pla….

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