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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… Attention
- Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. Only
- Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. Call
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. Beauty
- 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… According
- When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them… Absurdities
- We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our… Allowance
- No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. Away Life
- A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion Atheist
- Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once. All
- All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But… All
- 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… Affection
- Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the… Any
- 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 Absurdity
- All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of… Admit
- In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if… Affair
- 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… All
- The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking… Ascribe
- Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry,… Age
- Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to… According
- The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by… All
- History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. Discovering
- Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief… All
- The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be… Avenues
- Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man. Art
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