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- ..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they…
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
- And what is the greatest number? Number one.
- Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
- Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
- Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
- Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the…
- When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.
- Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
- Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
- Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
- The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
- A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
- To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
- Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
- Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
- Men often act knowingly against their interest.
- What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
- The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
- The law always limits every power it gives.
- Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
- Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
- Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
- It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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