Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUMEno 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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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 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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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