Top 39 Holbach Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Let education kindle only those which are truly beneficial
to the human species; let it favour those alone which are really necessary to the maintenance of society. The passions of man are dangerous, only because every thing conspires to give them an evil direction.
Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach
#3. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Baron D'Holbach
#4. 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
#5. All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
Baron D'Holbach
#6. Every German child learns to speak English in school.
Cornelia Funke
#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
#8. Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.
Quentin Crisp
#9. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
Baron D'Holbach
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Jaysus, you must be the most nosey little shite I have ever come across in my bleeding life.
Eden Butler
#13. If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
Ezra Pound
#14. 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
#15. The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
Baron D'Holbach
#16. If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're
doing the wrong things.
Larry Page
#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
#18. An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.
Marcus Aurelius
#19. The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken ... out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.
Kaye Gibbons
#20. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach
#21. All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
Baron D'Holbach
#22. 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
#23. It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.
Baron D'Holbach
#24. At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
#26. Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
Baron D'Holbach
#27. Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it might see?
Jean Genet
#29. If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
Mel Brooks
#30. 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
#31. An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of a being whom he does not conceive, and who is said to unite incompatible qualities.
Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.
Baron D'Holbach
#35. 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
#37. It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
Baron D'Holbach
#38. 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
#39. 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
