Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
DAVID HUMEA purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
More David Hume Quotes
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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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I 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.
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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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