If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
DAVID HUMEThe 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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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