“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
David Hume book A Treatise of Human Nature
Part 4, Section 7
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 1: Of the understanding
“You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.”
To Libertines
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)
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