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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

David Hume

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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Argument Friendship One Liner Season Truth
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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Attention Challenge Deep Foundation Human Important Philosophy Reason Religious
Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Foundation Man Science
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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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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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 possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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