What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
DAVID HUMETis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
More David Hume Quotes
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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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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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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