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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.

David Hume

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Happiness Read Think
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Life Man Worth
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Afford Alone Attention Care Reason
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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Infinite Philosophy Satisfy
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
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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Alone Man Passion Philosophy Result Temper Thing Understand
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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Compare Haunt Passion Philosophy Pride Sympathy
The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Argument Friendship One Liner Season Truth
But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Animal Deep Great Important Life Man Philosophy Universe
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner
The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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Fiction Identity Mind Nature Talk Thing
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
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Danger Deep Error Philosophy Religious Speak
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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Answer Deep Evil Old Question
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave

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