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 emb…

- Baron D'Holbach

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

- Baron D'Holbach

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 kno…

- Baron D'Holbach

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

- 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,…

- Baron D'Holbach

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should rea…

- Baron D'Holbach

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

- Baron D'Holbach

Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is su…

- Baron D'Holbach

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

- Baron D'Holbach