Atheist Quote by Baron d'Holbach

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

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

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

“. . . 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

“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

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

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

“...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

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

“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

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

If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some people. Parricide…

— Baron d'Holbach