It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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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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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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