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 HUMEThe science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
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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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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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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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