Baron D'Holbach Quotes
All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.
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.
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.