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  • Is it not something to know the men who deceive you, and the gross and dangerous errors they promulgate? osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • They who think differently appear to me to be badly organized, and monsters, like those who are born without eyes or heads. osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Yes: otherwise they would not be necessary to human kind. osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The Mahometan religion cannot therefore be essentially necessary to man. osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • If all be not necessary, it follows that God does unnecessary things. osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • God permits some men to be eaten by serpents, but we ought not to say that God made man to be eaten by serpents. osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • I perceive clearly that which is false, but know very little of that which is true. osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Would you speak of what is necessary to sustain life, or the evil to which people are reduced who cannot procure it? osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • It appears to me that God has given us all that is necessary in this sense: eyes to see, feet to walk, a mouth to eat, a gullet to swallow, a stomach to digest, a brain to reason, and organs to produce our kind. osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Because the general laws of nature are liable to accidents which produce monsters; but in general man is provided with all things necessary to his existence in society. osmin.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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