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.
DAVID HUMEIf subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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