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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.

David Hume

The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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Allow Blame Human Man Philosophy Selfish Separate
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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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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Gain Man Music Victory War
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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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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