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
DAVID HUMEReason 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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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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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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