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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.

David Hume

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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.

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