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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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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