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
DAVID HUMEReason 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.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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 gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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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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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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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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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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