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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

David Hume

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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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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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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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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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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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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