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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?

David Hume

But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Animal Deep Great Important Life Man Philosophy Universe
To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Appear History Mad Ordinary Philosophy
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
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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Believe Deity God Human Low Passion Philosophy
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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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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