That students of philosophy ought first to learn logics, then ethics, next physics, last of all the nature of the gods.”1 - David Hume

Hear the verbal protestations of all men: Nothing so certain as their religious tenets. Examine their lives: You will scarcely think that they repose the smallest confidence in them.

That I am ready to throw all of my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasure of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.