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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

Don’t say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am neither benefactor nor philosopher, but just a human being, and my charities are the pleasantest expense I have on these journeys.
BARON D'HOLBACH

Anything Journey Play Say
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
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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Desire Free Think Volition
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
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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Atheist Ignorance Knowledge
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Atheism Atheist Ignorance
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
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Atheist Inspirational Life
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
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Atheist Men Race
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination.
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Giving Nature Science Up
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
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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Blood Selfish War
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
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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Atheism Religious Tolerance
The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
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Ignorance Nature People
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
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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Atheist Children Ideas

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.

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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.

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