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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

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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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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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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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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