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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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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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.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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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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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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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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