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  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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. Download This Image
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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.
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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.
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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.
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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.
  • Baron d'Holbach Quote - 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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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.

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 - 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.

    BARON D'HOLBACH
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Baron d'Holbach Quote - Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Download This Image

    Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination.

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

    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.

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

    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.

    BARON D'HOLBACH
  • 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.

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

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

    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.

    BARON D'HOLBACH
  • 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.

    BARON D'HOLBACH
  • 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 - 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

    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
  • 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.

    BARON D'HOLBACH
  • 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.

    BARON D'HOLBACH
  • 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.

    BARON D'HOLBACH
  • 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.

    BARON D'HOLBACH
  • 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 - Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?

    Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?

    BARON D'HOLBACH