All knowledge degenerates into probability.
DAVID HUME
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
More David Hume Quotes
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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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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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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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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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
DAVID HUME