" The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. " | " A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. " | " Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it. " |
" Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool. " ![]() | " 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. " | " The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. " |