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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

David Hume

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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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 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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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Affection Feeling Heart Passion Philosophy
To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

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