Al-Maʿarri

“If you will do some deed before you die,Will stay with you for an eternity.”

“They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!”

“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts:And those with religion, but no brains.”

“A little doubt is better than total credulity.”