The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
DAVID HUMEI 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.
More David Hume Quotes
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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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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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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