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?
DAVID HUMECarelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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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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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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