The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men… — 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
