If subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable.
DAVID HUMEA wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.
More David Hume Quotes
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
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As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
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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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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.
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To philosophers and historians, the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
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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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But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.
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It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.
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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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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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There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
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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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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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Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
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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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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call ‘thought’
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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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Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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All knowledge degenerates into probability.
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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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