Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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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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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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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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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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