2 Quotes & Sayings By Baron Dholbach

Baron d'Holbach, born in 1723 in Brussels, was a French-German philosopher, systematizer of the Enlightenment in the tradition of Rene Descartes, and one of the founders of Deism. He has been called "the last of the materialists" and "Europe's most influential rationalist." Holbach was a member of the famous salon conducted by Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and contributed to many philosophical works including The System of Nature.