Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
DAVID HUMEBut the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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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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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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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 truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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