After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

{Said in a letter to Voltaire}

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
That is a hard question,' said Candide.

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.