The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
DAVID HUMEI never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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 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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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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