Baron d'Holbach Quote

Instead... of seeking out of the world he inhabits for beings who can procure him a happiness denied to him by Nature, let man study this Nature, let him learn her laws, contemplate her energies [and] observe the immutable rules by which she acts.


Translated by H.D. Robinson, The System of Nature, Or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World, (Volume 1)


Instead... of seeking out of the world he inhabits for beings who can procure him a happiness denied to him by Nature, let man study this Nature, let ...

Instead... of seeking out of the world he inhabits for beings who can procure him a happiness denied to him by Nature, let man study this Nature, let ...

Instead... of seeking out of the world he inhabits for beings who can procure him a happiness denied to him by Nature, let man study this Nature, let ...

Instead... of seeking out of the world he inhabits for beings who can procure him a happiness denied to him by Nature, let man study this Nature, let ...