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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

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern
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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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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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