To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
DAVID HUMEThere is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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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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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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