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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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Fiction Identity Mind Nature Talk Thing
I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
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Different Man Perspective Success
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
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
It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Deep Philosophy Possible Thing
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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Action End Philosophy Power Product
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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Age Appear Human Monument Nation
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 truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Argument Friendship One Liner Season Truth
Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Condition Exist Philosophy Return
When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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Death Destroy Mental
All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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Knowledge One Liner
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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Book Deep Learning Philosophy
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Law Miracle Nature One Liner
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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Deep Imagination Important Philosophy War Word
It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Man Philosophy Politics

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