Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
DAVID HUMEWhen men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
More David Hume Quotes
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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