Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
DAVID HUMEIt 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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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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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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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Men’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
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In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
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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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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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