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Baron d'Holbach Quote: “All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.”

1. “All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.”

— Baron d'Holbach

Baron d'Holbach Quote: “If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”

2. “If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”

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Baron d'Holbach Quote: “Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.”

3. “Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.”

— Baron d'Holbach

Baron d'Holbach Quote: “The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.”

4. “The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.”

— Baron d'Holbach

Baron d'Holbach Quote: “All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.”

5. “All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.”

— Baron d'Holbach

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.”

6. “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

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.”

7. “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

Baron d'Holbach Quote: “It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.”

8. “It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.”

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Baron d'Holbach Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Baron d'Holbach Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Baron d'Holbach

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.”

11. “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

Baron d'Holbach Quote: “It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.”

12. “It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.”

— Baron d'Holbach

Baron d'Holbach Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Baron d'Holbach Quote: “It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.”

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

— Baron d'Holbach

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.”

15. “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

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.”

16. “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

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?”

17. “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

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