“Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.”

“These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.”

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike.”

“His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.”

“As the years accumulate, we form an increasingly somber image of the future. Is this only to console ourselves for being excluded from it? Yes in appearance, no in fact, for the future has always been hideous, man being able to remedy his evils only by aggravating them, so that in each epoch existence, is much more tolerable before the solution is found to the difficulties of the moment.”

“A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.”

“Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.”