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- All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations…
- The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art…
- Christianity is religion for the executioner.
- Christianity is called the religion of pity.
- The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
- The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
- I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they…
- Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
- Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part…
- Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
- The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task…
- The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it…
- I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it…
- "God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time…
- God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you…
- Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But…
- In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
- People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to…
- Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art…
- School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders…
- A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
- The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice…
- The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the…
- The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need…
- In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was…
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