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

David Hume

There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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Age Appear Human Monument Nation
no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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Deep Establish False Kind Miracle Philosophy Sufficient
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Difficult Man Philosophy Speak
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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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Gain Man Music Victory War
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Deep Man Philosophy
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Greedy Philosophy Wonder
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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Effort Follow Philosophy Resist Violence
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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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

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