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.
DAVID HUME
The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.
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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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I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.
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