It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
DAVID HUMEThe Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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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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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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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