“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”
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David Hume (7 May 1711 [26 April O.S.] – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others as a British Empiricist. Source: [English Wikipedia][1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
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“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”
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“The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.”
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“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.”
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“Be a philosopher but, amid 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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“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
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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.”
“Stercus accidit.”
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“The perfect philosophy of the natural kind [= the perfect physics] only staves off our ignorance a little longer; just as, perhaps, the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical k...”
“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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“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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“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proport...”
“When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the...”
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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, an...”
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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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“Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they were still more barbarous, and in all probability long after the fa...”
“How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and h...”
“Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.”
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“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”
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