“ Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ”
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“ Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. ”
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“ 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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“ Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ”
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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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“ In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ”
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“ Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ”
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“ Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. ”
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“ When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. ”
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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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“ 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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“ To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian. ”
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“ Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the facts which it relates, corroborated by no concurring testimony, and resembling those fabulous accounts, which every nation gives of its origin. ”
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“ How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world. ”
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“ In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ”
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“ When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. ”
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“ Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. ”
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“ This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ”
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“ That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. ”
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“ Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. ”
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“ It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place,... It's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. ”
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