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.
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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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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