A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
From David Hume
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
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.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
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