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Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.
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― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
― Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
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In Hume, Rationalism and scepticism existed peacefully side by side. Scepticism was for the study only, and was to be forgotten in the business of practical life. Moreover, practical life was to be governed, as far as possible, by those very methods of science which his scepticism impugned. Such a compromise was only possible for a man who was in equal parts a philosopher and a man of the world; there is also a flavour of aristocratic Toryism in the reservation of an esoteric unbelief for the in
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― The Will to Doubt
― The Will to Doubt
