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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.

David Hume

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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Age Appear Human Monument Nation
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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Deep Imagination Important Philosophy War Word
The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Cure Philosophy
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Afford Alone Attention Care Reason
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Condition Exist Philosophy Return
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Life Man Worth
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Greedy Philosophy Wonder
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
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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Action End Philosophy Power Product
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics
I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Decision Discover Miracle Myself Pronounce Weight
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
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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Obey Passion Reason Serve Slave
The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Foundation Man Science

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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