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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

David Hume

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
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
It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Deep Philosophy Possible Thing
The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Argument Friendship One Liner Season Truth
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Book Deep Learning Philosophy
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Afford Alone Attention Care Reason
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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Affection Feeling Heart Passion Philosophy
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Happiness Read Think
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.
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Allow Blame Human Man Philosophy Selfish Separate
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Difficult Man Philosophy Speak
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Foundation Man Science
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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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 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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