Top 84 Baron D'holbach Quotes
#1. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#6. Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#8. Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
Baron De Montesquieu
#12. The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
Baron De Montesquieu
#13. Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
#15. Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir
Frank Herbert
#16. Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,
whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,
is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#18. Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.
Richard Layard, Baron Layard
#19. Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#20. We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
Baron De Montesquieu
#23. My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.
Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy
#25. The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But
Frank Herbert
#27. It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#28. Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place.
Colette Baron Reid
#29. Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
Baron De Montesquieu
#30. A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#31. The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
Baron De Montesquieu
#32. Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,
prayer.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#34. It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#37. The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#39. In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#40. I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
Baron De Montesquieu
#41. A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#44. When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person ... there can be no liberty.
Baron De Montesquieu
#46. What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
John O'Keefe
#47. No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#48. The atheist ... destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
Baron D'Holbach
#54. Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always usually ask, 'Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?' And it's good to have an answer for that."
Baron Vaughn
#55. Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
Baron De Montesquieu
#56. If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#57. It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#59. Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#60. It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.
Baron D'Holbach
#61. Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
Baron D'Holbach
#62. We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
#63. Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
#64. 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
#65. All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
Baron D'Holbach
#66. What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man of common sense.
Baron D'Holbach
#67. 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
#68. The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
Baron D'Holbach
#69. 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
#70. It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
Baron D'Holbach
#71. 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
#72. 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.
Baron D'Holbach
#73. If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
Baron D'Holbach
#74. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Baron D'Holbach
#75. Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.
Baron D'Holbach
#76. The Baron took his cane and put it under the doctor's chin. "You are a very unlikeable man. In my true form, I'd think you as little more than spooge on the bottom of my shoe.
Daniel Younger
#77. All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
Baron D'Holbach
#78. 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
#79. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
Baron D'Holbach
#80. To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
Baron D'Holbach
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
Baron D'Holbach
#84. 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
