It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
DAVID HUMEAny 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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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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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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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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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 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 miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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