A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
DAVID HUMEIt is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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In 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.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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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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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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