All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
DAVID HUMEBeauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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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 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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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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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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The 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.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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