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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

David Hume

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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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The 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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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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 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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

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