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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

David Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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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 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 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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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