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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

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.
BARON D'HOLBACH

Evil Heaven Real
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.
BARON D'HOLBACH

Desire Independent Thinking
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
BARON D'HOLBACH

Atheist Inspirational Life
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
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
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

Atheism Atheist Religion
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 unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
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Ignorance Nature People
Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes.
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Examination Example Excessive Prevent Religious
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Atheism Atheist Ignorance
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?
BARON D'HOLBACH

Desire Free Think Volition
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination.
BARON D'HOLBACH

Giving Nature Science Up
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 source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
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Animal Ignorance Nature
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.
BARON D'HOLBACH

Causes Matter Science
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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Bound Man Leave Nature Spirit Vain Work

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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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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