A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
DAVID HUMEHeaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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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 gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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