It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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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 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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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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