The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
DAVID HUMEno 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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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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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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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
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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 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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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 suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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