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

Baron d'Holbach

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
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
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Atheism Atheist Ignorance
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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Evil Heaven Real
The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
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Ignorance Nature People
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
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Animal Ignorance Nature
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
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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Atheist Children Ideas

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