Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Among human beings, only the existence of those we love is fully recognized. Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.