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- Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by…
- The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense,…
- In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for…
- It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
- People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter...…
- Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make…
- To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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