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.
DAVID HUMEHe is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
More David Hume Quotes
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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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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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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