Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
DAVID HUMEThe bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
More David Hume Quotes
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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