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Knowing others is wisdom.

Knowing oneself is enlightenment.

Lao Tzu (circa 500 BCE)

I call degenerate practices and senseless beliefs diseases of humanity.

Maimonides (1135-1204)

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

“Religion is a system of superstition that produces fanatics and serves the purposes of despotism.”

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Religion promotes and/or exploits personal guilt.

What people who clamor that society needs religion really mean is that we need police.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

God and country are an unbearable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Luis Buñuel (1900-1983)

Lies are fascinating for what they reveal about the liar.

Federico Fellini (1920-1993)

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it?

Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

Sell the Vatican and feed the poor.

Sarah Silverman (2008)

To catch a glimpse of the evil in Man, one must first peel off the outer layers of piety.

Itamar Sittenfeld (2009)