What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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.
More David Hume Quotes
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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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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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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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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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return?
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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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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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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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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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