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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.

David Hume

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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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.

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