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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?

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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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