There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God.
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.
Anything that is conceivable is possible.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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.
I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
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 not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.
No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.
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 few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.
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