A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life.[2]

The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy.[2]

Beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia.[2]

Most religions have merely canonized a few products of ancient ignorance and derangement and passed them down to us as though they were primordial truths.[2]

Il est bien malaise (puisqu'il faut enfin m'expliquer) d'oter a des insenses des chaines qu'ils reverent.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.