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 HUMEBut the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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.
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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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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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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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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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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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