Quotes by : Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling....

Man cannot cherish his existence any longer than life holds out charms to him: when he is wrought upon....

...if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, 'Am I not the master of throwing myself out of....

It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has....

The power of loving a God whom religion paints as the most detestable of beings would, doubtless, be....

An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence....

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed....

Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his....

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.

How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested....