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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.

David Hume

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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Deep Imagination Important Philosophy War Word
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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Affection Feeling Heart Passion Philosophy
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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Deep Establish False Kind Miracle Philosophy Sufficient
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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Believe History Philosophy Religious
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Life Man Worth
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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Beautiful Different Exist Mind Philosophy Quality Thing
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Deep Philosophy Possible Thing
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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Bad Deep Good Heaven Hell Man Philosophy Religious
Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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Answer Deep Evil Old Question
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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Destruction Fingers Reason World
If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
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Effort Follow Philosophy Resist Violence
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.

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