It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
DAVID HUMEThe gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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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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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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