If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.