All knowledge degenerates into probability
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions
There is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books
Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man
Explanation is where the mind rests
A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry
The biggest shame is, to mock at something that you have in yourself.
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men
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