“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.” TryingHumansPlayHuman BeingsJourneyAtheismCharityPhilosopherPositive AtheismExpensesSay AnythingBenefactors Author:Baron d'Holbach
“The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.” MenHumansReasonReligionRaceAtheistHuman RaceChimera Author: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? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.” ThinkingMenMindHumansHas BeensStoriesActionProgressIgnoranceTaughtDependsMercyStupidityInvisiblePriestsHuman MindPrimitiveReservedPhantomsReveriePerpetuatingIgnorance And Fear Author:Baron d'Holbach
