Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
DAVID HUMEIf 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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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 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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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