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.
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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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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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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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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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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 gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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