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

David Hume

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner
Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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Destruction Fingers Reason World
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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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Believe Deep Examine Philosophy
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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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.
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Action End Philosophy Power Product
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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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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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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Alone Arrogant Man Mistake Passion Secure
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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