A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
DAVID HUME
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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