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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

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

Ignorance Men Thinking
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Atheism Atheist Ignorance
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
The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
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Ignorance Nature People
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Anything Journey Play Say
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.
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Animal Christian Son
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination.
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Giving Nature Science Up
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?
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Giving Ideas Men
The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
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Animal Ignorance Nature
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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Atheist Common Men Sense

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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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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