Monday Morning Philosophy

Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach (1723-1789) was one of those philosophers of the Enlightenment whose ideas prompted the American and French revolutions. But, as happened with many such thinkers, once the revolution was successful, those ideas became as troubling to the new regime as the old, and he ended up being guillotined:

"The less men reason, the more wicked they are.
Savages, princes, nobles, and the dregs of the
people, are commonly the worst of men,
because they reason least."