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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.

David Hume

To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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Believe Deity God Human Low Passion Philosophy
To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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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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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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