Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature [of d'Holbach] - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried to prove the impossibility. (Voltaire)

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature [of d'Holbach] - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried to prove the impossibility.

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