About Anthony Collins: Anthony Collins was an English philosopher, and a proponent of deism.
Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming Force or Weakness of the Evidence.