“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused me! A thousand times I was on the point of breaking out publicly and opening your… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces… — Jean Meslier Copy Share
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all. — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest. — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to look within themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to consult their obvious interests, to consider the object of society and of each of the members who compose it, and they will easily… — Jean Meslier Copy Share
“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
