All knowledge degenerates into probability.
DAVID HUMELiberty of any kind is never lost all at once
More David Hume Quotes
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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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In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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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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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
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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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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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