How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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 Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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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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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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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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.
DAVID HUME