To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste without a palate, to smell without a nose, and to feel without hands and without skin. Nations who believe themselves very rational, adopt, nevertheless, such ideas.
I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest. - Jean Meslier
I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.
- Jean Meslier
... inventions and purely human institutions. - Jean Meslier
... inventions and purely human institutions.
To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear… - Jean Meslier
To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear…
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinc… - Jean Meslier
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinc…
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to l… - Jean Meslier
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to l…
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all. - Jean Meslier
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.
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