Frases de Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach (9 citas)

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“We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.”

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“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.”

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Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas (London: W. Stewart & Co., ca. 1900) ( Project Gutenberg e-text http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/gsens10.txt), preface
Translator unknown. Original publication in French at Amsterdam, 1772, as Le bon sens ("Common Sense"), and often attributed to John Meslier.

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

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ibid., chap. 30

“Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”

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La Système de la nature; quoted in The Law of Reason, published by J. Thompson, p. 40.
Variante: Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

“Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we shall discover Truth, Reason, and Morality. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from the remedies which nature prescribes; far from curing, it only aggravates, multiplies, and perpetuates them.”

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ibid., chap. 206

“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.”

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ibid., preface

“It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.”

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Baron d'Holbach libro The System of Nature

Samuel Wilkinson, trans., The System of Nature ( Project Gutenberg e-text http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7son110.txt), vol. 1, chap. IX
Date and place of publication unknown. Original publication in French, 1770, as La Système de la nature, under the name of Jean Baptiste de Mirabaud.