The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
DAVID HUMEThe truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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