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

David Hume

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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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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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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