"Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable……" — Baron d'Holbach

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism. - Baron d'Holbach

"Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism."

— 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.
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and…
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our…
What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to…
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little,…
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature,…
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance…
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to…
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other…
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to…
God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we…

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