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"Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
"A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures."
"Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods."
"It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?"
"True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance."
"Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord."
"No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live."
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him."
"Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned"
"Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion."
"One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat."
"When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know."
"You got your God and so do I."
"The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God."
"Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own."
"Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try."
"The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."
"Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of."
"The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously."
"Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt."
