All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
DAVID HUMEBut the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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 science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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 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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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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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