Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
DAVID HUMEWhat a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression?
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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