Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
DAVID HUMEHeaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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 identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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