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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?

David Hume

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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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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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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
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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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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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