"For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never c…"

"The greatest part of mankind are governed by authority, not by reason."

"The life of man is a perpetual flux of motion. All his thoughts, sentiments, and actions are in a continual succession, and never remain for any considerable time in the same state."

"There is no such thing as freedom of the will."

"Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and 'tis a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure."