If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
DAVID HUMEThe gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
More David Hume Quotes
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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 miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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