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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.