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

Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to the….

The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an….

It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; i….

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

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 yo….

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

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….

These principles, universally recognized, are at fault when the question of the existence of God is considered; what has been said of Him is either u….

Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am neither benefactor nor philos….

God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed….

Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to mak….

Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the mar….