It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. |
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. |
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. |
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. |
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. |
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish |
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few |
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. |
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 |
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account |
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 |
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 |
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 the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being. |
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy. |
The law always limits every power it gives. |