Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.