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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.

David Hume

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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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 truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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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 philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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