There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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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Revolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning.
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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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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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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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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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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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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 Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences.
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It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.
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