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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

David Hume

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
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Deep Man Philosophy
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Law Miracle Nature One Liner
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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Different Man Perspective Success
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
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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Affection Feeling Heart Passion Philosophy
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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Always Conscious Man Real Reference Right
The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Foundation Man Science
To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Appear History Mad Ordinary Philosophy
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
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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Alone Man Passion Philosophy Result Temper Thing Understand
But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Animal Deep Great Important Life Man Philosophy Universe
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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Effort Follow Philosophy Resist Violence
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner
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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Beautiful Different Exist Mind Philosophy Quality Thing

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