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whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

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I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated...more

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Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men’s way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of natur...more

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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

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Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like...more

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If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

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It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the Word of God, and it is no more permissible to say o...more

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Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish min...more

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Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

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Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to...more