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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.

David Hume

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
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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Believe History Philosophy Religious
It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Deep Philosophy Possible Thing
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Book Deep Learning Philosophy
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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Affection Feeling Heart Passion Philosophy
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Life Man Worth
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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Action End Philosophy Power Product
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner
The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Foundation Man Science
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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Deep Imagination Important Philosophy War Word
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Argument Friendship One Liner Season Truth
The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Cure Philosophy

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