If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
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.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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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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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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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