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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Hume

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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Excellent Happiness Himself Philosophy Situation Temper
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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Gain Man Music Victory War
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Book Deep Learning Philosophy
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Life Man Worth
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.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
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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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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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