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All knowledge degenerates into probability.

David Hume

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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Attention Challenge Deep Foundation Human Important Philosophy Reason Religious
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
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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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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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Gain Man Music Victory War
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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Men’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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Believe Deity God Human Low Passion Philosophy
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Afford Alone Attention Care Reason
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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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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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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