I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
DAVID HUMEBe a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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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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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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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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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
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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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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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