God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts.