All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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