Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

One religion is as true as another.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.