Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
DAVID HUMEBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
More David Hume Quotes
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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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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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 bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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