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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

David Hume

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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Affair Day Decent Expose Eyes Man Public Truth World
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
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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Infinite Philosophy Satisfy
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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Alone Man Passion Philosophy Result Temper Thing Understand
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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Obey Passion Reason Serve Slave
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
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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Culture Different Direction Fact Law Place Water
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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Compare Haunt Passion Philosophy Pride Sympathy
The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Foundation Man Science
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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Action End Philosophy Power Product
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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Always Conscious Man Real Reference Right
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
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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Effort Follow Philosophy Resist Violence
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
As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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Attention Challenge Deep Foundation Human Important Philosophy Reason Religious

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