"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."

Animals, Man

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"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."

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"Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever."

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"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."

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"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."

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"From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God."

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"So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."

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"A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself."

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"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."

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"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few."

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"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."

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