When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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