When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
DAVID HUMEWhen suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
More David Hume Quotes
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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Men’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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