To Think Is To Differ.

The World Is Made Up For The Most Part Of Morons And Natural Tyrants, Sure Of Themselves, Strong In Their Own Opinions, Never Doubting Anything.

Some Of You Say Religion Makes People Happy. So Does Laughing Gas.

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.

The Origin Of The Absurd Idea Of Immortal Life Is Easy To Discover; It Is Kept Alive By Hope And Fear, By Childish Faith, And By Cowardice.

I Have Always Felt That Doubt Was The Beginning Of Wisdom, And The Fear Of God Was The End Of Wisdom.