“Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!”
“My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble.”
“Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.”
“Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.”
“Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.”
“The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.”