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… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and… — Baron D'Holbach Copy Share Image
“An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“...if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, 'Am I not the master of throwing myself out of the window?' I… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
