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.
DAVID HUMEIt is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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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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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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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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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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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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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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