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

David Hume

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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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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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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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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