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Baron D Holbach Inspirational Quotes (15)

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These principles, universally recognized, are at fault when the question of the existence of God is considered what has been said of Him is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory and for this reason must appear impossible to every man.
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
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Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense, an uninterrupted succession of causes and effects.
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Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
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In Nature nothing is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for some of her productions. In the eyes of Nature, however, the oyster that vegetates at the bottom of the sea is as dear and perfect as the proud biped who devours it.
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It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.
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God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed, he desires to enlighten by his special grace. What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?
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All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.
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