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.
DAVID HUMEIf subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
More David Hume Quotes
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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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Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.
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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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The truth springs from arguments amongst friends.
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Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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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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The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves.
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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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