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- Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
- It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend…
- We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that…
- The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner…
- But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall…
- The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments…
- The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or…
- It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either…
- We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances…
- Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it…
- If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should…
- 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…
- Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
- 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.
- Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
- Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- There is no They, Only Us.
- Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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