If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
DAVID HUMEWe 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.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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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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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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