Meslier Quotes & Sayings

I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty! — Megan Hilty

He'd stolen his philosophy of editing from the old New Critics - it's just about the book. Not the author, not the market, not the reader ... one judged a book only by the book. — Tiffany Reisz

For the first time (but how long will it take us to acknowledge this?) in the history of ideas, a philosopher had dedicated a whole book to the question of atheism. He professed it, demonstrated it, arguing and quoting, sharing his reading and his reflections, and seeking confirmation from his own observations of the everyday world. His title sets it out clearly: Memoir of the Thoughts and Feelings of Jean Meslier; and so does his subtitle: Clear and Evident Demonstrations of the Vanity and Falsity of All the Religions of the World. The book appeared in 1729, after his death. Meslier had spent the greater part of his life working on it. The history of true atheism had begun. — Michel Onfray

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire

But in the 'nineties young men desired something more sweeping and passionate, more bold and less bland. — Bertrand Russell

Heaven is where God dwells. It is a specific place; ... a place of unparalleled tranquility and beauty. It includes the new heaven and new earth. — Paul P. Enns

God works as he chooses - we have our tests and He has His revelations — Susan Fletcher

Inventions and purely human institutions. — Jean Meslier

To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste without a palate, to smell without a nose, and to feel without hands and without skin. Nations who believe themselves very rational, adopt, nevertheless, such ideas. — Jean Meslier

[Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal. — Lana Del Rey

I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest. — Jean Meslier

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed. — Douglas Holtz-Eakin

He does tend to have that effect on people. They come in expecting to feel sympathetic but walk away wanting to strangle him. — Lauren Layne

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all. — Jean Meslier

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too. — Jazmine Sullivan

How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused me! A thousand times I was on the point of breaking out publicly and opening your eyes, but a fear stronger than myself held me back, and forced me to keep silence until my death. — Jean Meslier

Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery. — Jean Meslier

Although any help is genuinely welcomed, it is more important to be a supportive, proactive parent than it is to be a supportive parent after academic failure and negative behaviors occur. — Tanya R. Liverman