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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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