Baron dHolbach Quotes about Atheist

If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them;

If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.

Baron d'Holbach

Atheist, Ignorance, Men

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

Baron d'Holbach

Atheist, Ignorance, Atheism

What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to reality, to reason. He is a thinker who, having reflected on the nature of matter, its energy, properties and ways of acting, has no need of idealized powers or imaginary intelligences to explain the phenomena of the universe and the operations of nature.

Baron d'Holbach

Atheist, Reality, Men

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

Baron d'Holbach

Atheist, Children, Ideas

"Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Chap. 30. Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

Baron d'Holbach

Atheist, Ignorance, Knowledge

"The System of Nature". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1770.

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.

Baron d'Holbach

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Baron d'Holbach

Inspirational, Life, Atheist

"Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

Baron d'Holbach

Atheist, Men, Race

These principles, universally recognized, are at fault when the question of the existence of God is considered; what has been said of Him is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man.

Baron d'Holbach

Atheist, Men, Common Sense

"Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense".

It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society.

Baron d'Holbach

Atheist, Men, Vanity

Baron dHolbach Quotes about Atheist

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