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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.

David Hume

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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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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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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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 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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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