It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
DAVID HUMEThe gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
More David Hume Quotes
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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