The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
DAVID HUMEWhen suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
More David Hume Quotes
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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 Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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