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.
DAVID HUMEWe 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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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 gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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