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The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

Baron d'Holbach

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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Men Superstitions Vanity
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination.
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Giving Nature Science Up
The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
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Animal Ignorance Nature
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.
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Desire Independent Thinking
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for some of her productions. In the eyes of Nature, however, the oyster that vegetates at the bottom of the sea is as dear and perfect as the proud biped who devours it.
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Eye Mean Pride
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.
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Atheism Atheist Religion
People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn’t it be better to depend on blind matter… than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent.
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Death People Punishment
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Atheism Atheist Ignorance
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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Common Sense Men Opinion
The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals.
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Animal Christian Son
The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.
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Appetite God Immortaed Sanguinary Savage Thousand
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.
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Men Religious World
The Jupiter of the Pagans is a lascivious monster. The Moloch of the Phoenicians is a cannibal. The pure mind of the Christians resolved, in order to appease his fury, to crucify his own son.
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Christian Crucufy Jupiter Monster Phonecian Resolve
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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Atheism Religious Tolerance
It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.
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Creating Eels Men
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense, an uninterrupted succession of causes and effects.
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Causes Matter Science

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