understanding Quotes

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

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 endeavors to establish.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.