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.
DAVID HUMENo man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
More David Hume Quotes
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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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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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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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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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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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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