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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

David Hume

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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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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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
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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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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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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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