It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
DAVID HUMEBut the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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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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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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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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