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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

David Hume

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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 Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
DAVID HUME

Man Philosophy Politics

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

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Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

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