Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?
Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel.
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.
He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.
The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.