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

David Hume

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Greedy Philosophy Wonder
But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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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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Alone Arrogant Man Mistake Passion Secure
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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