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“One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.”

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Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) was a prominent French philosopher of the 17th century, known as one of the key figures in the development of rationalist philosophy. His thoughts have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophical thought. more

“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.”

“I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.”

Thinking Want Beautiful Known Who You Are Women Want Being Beautiful

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“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?”

Men Giving Mind Ideas Quality Atheism Capacity Positive Atheism Theology Agents Faculty Precise Contradictory Marvellous Ineffable Boon Conceiving

Author:Baron d'Holbach

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

Religious Atheism Positive Atheism Tolerance Antidote Fanaticism Freedom Of Thought

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“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.”

Men Common Opinion Judgment Common Sense Contradiction Rejects Absurdity Uncommon

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“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.”

Ideas War Names Nations Blood Selfish Diverse Savages Adore Furious Thirsty

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time informed, he desires to enlighten by his special grace. What must we think of a revelation which, far from teaching us any thing, is calculated to darken and puzzle the clearest ideas?”

Thinking Ideas Desire Grace Teaching Special Willing Curiosity Ridiculous Revelations Puzzles Enlightening Inconsistent

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.”

Men Government Politics Republican Equal Former Latter Republican Government

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.”

Mind Heart Lying Passion Illusion Errors Monsters Temptation Desert Vain Demon Tranquility Fasting Seducing Mortification

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

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