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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.

David Hume

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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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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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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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