Ancient Quote by Baron d'Holbach Download Open image “All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.” — Baron d'Holbach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Atheism Atheist Atheistic Ferocity Ignorance Monument Religion Superstitions
Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Forget your religious superstitions built by cults and learn to love for the sake of humanity."-Stated after hearing a man use religion to justify… — Rickey Russell Copy Share Image
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Because most religions offer no valid mechanism by which their core beliefs can be tested and revised, each new generation of believers is condemned… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
