Baron d'Holbach Quotes
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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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 lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
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Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
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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, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.