WednesdayOct 08, 2025
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Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject.
The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.
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 esteemed a benefactor to mankind.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, `Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?' No. `Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?' No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.
When men are the most sure and arrogant they are commonly the most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation and suspense which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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 endeavours to establish.
Delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, By confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater party of men.
Human life is more governed by fortune than by reason.
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
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