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.
DAVID HUME
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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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 gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
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