"The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras……" — Baron d'Holbach
"The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason."
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Baron d'Holbach
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31 Quotes by Baron d'Holbach
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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and…
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our…
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What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to…
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Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little,…
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance…
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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to…
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Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other…
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to…
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God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we…
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More Afflict Quotes
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Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred…
— Kelly Miller
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger…
— Martin Luther
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God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor…
— Jerry Bridges
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In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore,…
— Dalai Lama
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We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The…
— Dalai Lama
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Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
— Clarence Darrow
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The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)....Yes the principles of the…
— Colin Powell
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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and…
— Mark Twain
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
— Cardinal Richelieu
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The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict…
— Thomas Jefferson
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