How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
DAVID HUMEIn 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.
More David Hume Quotes
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Beauty 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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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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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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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