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....

Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other....

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....

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

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....

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated....

If a faithful account was rendered of man's ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge,....