"The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing……" — 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 immense, an uninterrupted succession of causes and effects."
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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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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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The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature,…
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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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Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena…
— Oliver Heaviside
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Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians.…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows…
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles…
— Unknown Author
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A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected…
— George Washington
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Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all…
— Marcel Duchamp
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A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
— J. B. Bury
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Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving…
— Stephen Crane
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The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral…
— Wendell Phillips
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The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the…
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together…
— Dean Kamen
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What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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