He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
DAVID HUMEBeauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
More David Hume Quotes
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
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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, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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