But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
DAVID HUMEAll knowledge degenerates into probability.
More David Hume Quotes
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To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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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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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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Men’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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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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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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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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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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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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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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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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