Baron D'Holbach Quotes
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“Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack it, because it seems to me harmful to the happiness of the state, hostile to the march of the mind of man, and contrary to sound morality, from which the interests of state policy can never be separated.”
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“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.”
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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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— Baron D'Holbach
“The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.”
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— Baron D'Holbach
“Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.”
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The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
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— Baron D'Holbach
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?
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God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed, he desires to enlighten by his special grace. What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?
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— Baron D'Holbach
— Baron D'Holbach
— Baron D'Holbach
“All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.”
— Baron D'Holbach
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