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.
DAVID HUMEIt is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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 difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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
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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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