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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.

David Hume

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
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The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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