At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.