The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall f….

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

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 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….

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

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..

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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

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