Baron d'Holbach: Quotes about God

Baron d'Holbach was French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist. Explore interesting quotes on god.

Baron d'Holbach: 18 quotes10 likes

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

ibid., chap. 30

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

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

“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

ibid., preface