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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.

David Hume

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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Believe History Philosophy Religious
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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Condition Exist Philosophy Return
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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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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