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 HUMEIt is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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