Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
DAVID HUMEMen’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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A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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