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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

David Hume

Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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