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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

David Hume

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Greedy Philosophy Wonder
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Law Miracle Nature One Liner
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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Answer Deep Evil Old Question
The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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Age Appear Human Monument Nation
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner
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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Obey Passion Reason Serve Slave
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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Culture Different Direction Fact Law Place Water
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Danger Deep Error Philosophy Religious Speak
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Deep Man Philosophy
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Life Man Worth
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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Different Man Perspective Success
Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Argument Force Government Politics Revolution
To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Appear History Mad Ordinary Philosophy
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics

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