Psychology Quotes by Baron d'Holbach

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Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.…

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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and…

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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can…

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Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack it, because it seems to me harmful to the happiness…

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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…

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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…

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“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . . . Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under divers names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say,…

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“An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of…

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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…

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If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and…

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the…

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“...if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, 'Am I not the master of throwing myself out of the window?' I…

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The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish…

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“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea…

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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…

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