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.
DAVID HUMEThe bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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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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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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