Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
DAVID HUMEReason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
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We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
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In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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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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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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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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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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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, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
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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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