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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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