“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.” IfsMindRealEvilHeavenNationsCausesChurchKnownAtheismPositive AtheismChainsMortalsMinistersRevoltFetters Book:Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense Source: Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
“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.” MeanIdeasEyeReligionCausesPerfectSeaPrideProudBottomDearProductionsContemptSuperiorityOysters Author:Baron d'Holbach
“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion, that we shall discover truth, morality and reason. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from these remedies which nature advocates, far from curing; it only aggravates, perpetuates and multiplies them.” MenMindRealReasonEvilCausesInterestDarknessIgnoranceDutyMoralityFilledCloudsRemedyPhantomsAgnosticismDispelling Author:Baron d'Holbach
“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.” MatterWholeScienceUniverseCausesEffectsOffersContemplationImmenseSuccessionCause And EffectAssemblage Author:Baron d'Holbach
“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.” NeedsLittlesReligionCausesAtheismAtheistInexplicableAnti Religious Author:Baron d'Holbach
