It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
DAVID HUMEAll 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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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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 truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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