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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

David Hume

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 men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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Alone Arrogant Man Mistake Passion Secure
The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Float Great Man Virtue

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