Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
DAVID HUMEHe is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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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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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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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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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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