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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?

David Hume

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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Obey Passion Reason Serve Slave
The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Argument Friendship One Liner Season Truth
To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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Appear History Mad Ordinary Philosophy
It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Difficult Man Philosophy Speak
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Deep Man Philosophy
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Believe Evidence Man One Liner Wise
Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Afford Alone Attention Care Reason
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Passion Reason Slave
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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Affair Day Decent Expose Eyes Man Public Truth World
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Beauty Contemplate Exist Mind Thing
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Law Miracle Nature One Liner
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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Culture Different Direction Fact Law Place Water
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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Beautiful Different Exist Mind Philosophy Quality Thing
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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Affection Feeling Heart Passion Philosophy
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Brain Philosophy Privilege Thought
But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Float Great Man Virtue

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