The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
DAVID HUMEI 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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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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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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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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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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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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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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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