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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.

David Hume

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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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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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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