Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
DAVID HUMEAs 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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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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