Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

...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.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.