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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.

David Hume

There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
DAVID HUME

Book Deep Learning Philosophy
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Law Miracle Nature One Liner
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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Alone Arrogant Man Mistake Passion Secure
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
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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Effort Follow Philosophy Resist Violence
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Argument Force Government Politics Revolution
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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Different Man Perspective Success
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Deep Man Philosophy
I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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Believe Deep Examine Philosophy
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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Attention Challenge Deep Foundation Human Important Philosophy Reason Religious
Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Condition Exist Philosophy Return
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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Culture Different Direction Fact Law Place Water
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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Deep Establish False Kind Miracle Philosophy Sufficient

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