How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
DAVID HUMEThe truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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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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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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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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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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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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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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