All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
DAVID HUMEI weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
More David Hume Quotes
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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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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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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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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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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