Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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Men’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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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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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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