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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

David Hume

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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Fiction Identity Mind Nature Talk Thing
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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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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Answer Deep Evil Old Question
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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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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Deep Imagination Important Philosophy War Word
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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Destruction Fingers Reason World
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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Attention Challenge Deep Foundation Human Important Philosophy Reason Religious
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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Alone Arrogant Man Mistake Passion Secure
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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