The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.