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  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Download This Image
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?

Baron d'Holbach

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality. Download This Image

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

    BARON D'HOLBACH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism. Download This Image

    It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature. Download This Image

    The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite. Download This Image

    The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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? Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism. Download This Image

    Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven’s cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals. Download This Image

    If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven’s cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return. Download This Image

    Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.

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