The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
DAVID HUMEThe 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.
More David Hume Quotes
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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