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Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach

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„Der Mensch ist das Werk der Natur, er existiert in der Natur, er ist ihren Gesetzen unterworfen, er kann sich nicht von ihnen freimachen, er kann nicht einmal durch das Denken von ihr loskommen; vergeblich strebt sein Geist über die Grenzen der sichtbaren Welt hinaus, immer ist er gezwungen, zu ihr zurückzukehren.“

Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach buch System der Natur

Manfred Geier: Aufklärung. Das europäische Projekt. Rowohlt Verlag, 3. Auflage 2012, ISBN 9783498025182, S.163 Google Books https://books.google.de/books?id=itJqAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT01. Vergleiche auch die Übersetzung: System der Natur, Frankfurt und Leipzig 1791, Erster Theil. Erstes Hauptstück, S. 1 f. http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN514897155|LOG_0005&physid=PHYS_0022. (Original frz.: « L'homme est l'Ouvrage de la nature, il existe dans la nature, il est soumis à ses lois, il ne peut s'en affranchir, il ne peut, même par la pensée, en sortir; c'est en vain que son esprit veut s'élancer au-delà des bornes du monde visible, il est toujours forcé d'y rentrer. » - Système de la nature. Londres 1770, Première Partie, premier chapitre, p.1 https://books.google.de/books?id=35EUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1). System der Natur

„Der Mensch ist darum unglücklich, weil er die Natur verkennt.“

Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach buch System der Natur

bei Manfred Geier, Aufklärung. Das europäische Projekt. Rowohlt Verlag, 3. Auflage 2012, ISBN 9783498025182, S.163 Google Books https://books.google.de/books?id=itJqAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT01. Vergleiche auch die Übersetzung: System der Natur, Frankfurt und Leipzig 1791, Erster Theil. Vorerinnerung des Verfassers. S. XI http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN514897155|LOG_0003&physid=PHYS_0012. (Original frz.: « L'homme n'est malheureux que parce qu'il méconnaît la nature. » - Système de la nature. Londres 1770, Préface de l'auteur https://books.google.de/books?id=35EUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP13). System der Natur

Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach: Zitate auf Englisch

“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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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.

“Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.”

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La Système de la nature; quoted by Norman Hampson, The Enlightenment p. 220 (paperback edition)

“Everything that passes in the world, proves to us, in the clearest manner, that it is not governed by an intelligent being.”

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Good Sense, or Natural Ideas vs. Supernatural