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

Baron d'Holbach

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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Desire Independent Thinking
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
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Atheist Ignorance Knowledge
The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
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Ignorance Nature People
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
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination.
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Giving Nature Science Up
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
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
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
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
The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
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Animal Ignorance Nature
All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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Atheist Children Ideas
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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Ignorance Men Thinking
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 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
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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