Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

Such crimes has superstition caused.

...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

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.