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

David Hume

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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Affection Feeling Heart Passion Philosophy
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
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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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey 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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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

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