To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
DAVID HUME
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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