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.…' Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

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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