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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

David Hume

But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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