I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

If God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

Everything persecutes me in this world, even things that do not exist

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.