Man disdains the study of nature, to pursue phantoms, which resemble the Will with the Wisp, which at once terrifies and dazzles the benighted traveler, and which make him quit the simple road to truth, without pursuing which, he can never arrive at happiness.


Translated by M. Mirabaud, System of Nature or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World (Volume 1), Preface by the Author (p. vii)

Baron d'Holbach Quotes

Man disdains the study of nature, to pursue phantoms, which resemble the Will with the Wisp, which at once terrifies and dazzles the benighted...

Man disdains the study of nature, to pursue phantoms, which resemble the Will with the Wisp, which at once terrifies and dazzles the benighted...

Man disdains the study of nature, to pursue phantoms, which resemble the Will with the Wisp, which at once terrifies and dazzles the benighted...

Man disdains the study of nature, to pursue phantoms, which resemble the Will with the Wisp, which at once terrifies and dazzles the benighted...