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Baron d'Holbach has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 true interests.…
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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 contemplation, nothing…
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What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man…
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Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have…
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The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience…
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?…
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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can…
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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 words, they…
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel,…
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We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we…
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If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms…
— Henri Poincare
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— Ambrose Bierce
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about…
— Galileo Galilei
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical…
— Charles Lyell
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Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there…
— Tycho Brahe
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
— Laura Dern
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The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for.
— Randy Savage
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You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart.
— Unknown Author
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
— Imogen Cunningham
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