All knowledge degenerates into probability.
DAVID HUMEIt is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
More David Hume Quotes
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It 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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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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 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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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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