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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.

David Hume

We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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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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Men’s views of things are the result of their understanding alone. Their conduct is regulated by their understanding, their temper, and their passions.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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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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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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