"If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm and deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them; and that custom, respect and tyranny support them; in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to the gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.""All religions are ancient monuments to superstitions, ignorance, ferocity; and modern religions are only ancient follies rejuvenated."
~ Quoted in Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations
“How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.”
"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."
~ Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas (London: W. Stewart & Co., ca. 1900) (Project Gutenberg e-text), preface
"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."
~ Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas (London: W. Stewart & Co., ca. 1900) (Project Gutenberg e-text), preface
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In 18th century's French materialism respect and stand of the Baron D'hollbach
ABSTRACT
That Materialism placed on the axis of Enlightenment in the 18th
century after having a long process in the history and that it revealed
Baron D’Hollbach in marginal thoughts in the same period formed the
main subject of our thesis. The place of the intellectual causer of the
French Revolution in the history of Philosopy and with whom he interacted
and from whom he was affected have been studied. Thus, the importance
of our philosopher’s opinion s in that period have been analysed.
This thesis has examined his conception of the world formed as a
result of stating his marginal ideas in a bold manner and all the facts and
events which were political, social and ethic, without neglecting his
boldness. This is the most important point of both our thesis and
D’Hollbach’s ideas.
To perceive the conception of the world formed by the 18th Century
after D’Hollbach’s polemics with the Christian world, and to emphesize the
importance of material in that period is like the Messenger of a new age.
Therefore, our subject is to analyse a neglected philosopher in his period
Mehmet Fatih Doğrucan
Gazi Universty ankara
link: http://tez.yok.gov.tr/YokTezSrv?PAGE=YOKSRV__S__53&OPER=FROMLINK&ATLPR=REFERANS|185792
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