This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance: it is the work only of some dependent, inferior deity; and is the object of derision to his superiors: it is the production of old age and dotage in some superannuateddeity; and ever since his death, has run on at adventures, from the first impulse and active force which it received from him. David Hume
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  1. Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

  2. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

  3. 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.

  4. It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.

  5. No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

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