What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
From David Hume
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
The law always limits every power it gives.
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
No 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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