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.
DAVID HUMETo 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 knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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