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Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

Revenge, Praise, Cruelty

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

Real, Healing, Blood

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

Anticipation, Pleasure

David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated”, p.405, eKitap Projesi

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Friendship, Spring, Philosophical

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

Fall, Class, Two

David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.735, Delphi Classics

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

Life, Gone, Life Is

David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.122

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Life, Reason, Guides

"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding". Book by David Hume, 1758.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Enemy, Religion, Atheism

David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.48

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

Opinion

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

Believe, Passion, Deities

David Hume (1793). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.595

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

Enemy, Age, Liberty

'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Parties of Great Britain' (1741-2)

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

Passion, Morality, Action

David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.235

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

Believe, Men, Unhappy

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

Perception, Mind, Philosopher

David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.534

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

Thinking, Liberty, Fraud

David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.33, Oxford University Press

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Philosophical, World, Labor

David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.153

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Politics, Firsts, Appearance

David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.443

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

Truth, Honesty, Stronger

David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765”, p.305, Oxford University Press, USA

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

Dream, Religious, Men

"The Natural History of Religion".

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

Life, Learning, Way

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Gains, Applause, Harder

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Peace, War, Philosophical

Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Optimistic, Men

David Hume (2006). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.595, Cosimo, Inc.

... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.

Wise, Intelligent, Ideas

David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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