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
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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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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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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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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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