Baron d'Holbach

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.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

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