Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
DAVID HUME
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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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
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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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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