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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once

David Hume

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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Obey Passion Reason Serve Slave
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
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Freedom Liberty Lost One Liner
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Book Deep Learning Philosophy
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
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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Beautiful Different Exist Mind Philosophy Quality Thing
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Difficult Man Philosophy Speak
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Care Design Purpose Stupidity Think
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
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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Gain Man Music Victory War
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
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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Affair Day Decent Expose Eyes Man Public Truth World
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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