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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for…
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Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
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I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest…
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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not…
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There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first…
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In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
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I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges…
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Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a…
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I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the…
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions…
— David Hume
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Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a…
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The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or…
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they…
— John Stuart Mill
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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human…
— Christopher Morley
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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with…
— John Stuart Mill
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Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power…
— Thiruman Archunan
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