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.
DAVID HUMEThe fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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If 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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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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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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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