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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

David Hume

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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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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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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Infinite Philosophy Satisfy
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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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Appear History Mad Ordinary Philosophy
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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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Life Man Worth
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
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 gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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