A propensity to laugh is at the bottom of all our serious philosophical enquiries.
Empiricism, skepticism
Letter to Adam Smith, 1759 (often paraphrased, precise wording may vary)
1759
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
Humorous"Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular."
Humorous"It is an infallible maxim, that no man was ever attached to the present order of things, who did not hope to profit by it."
Humorous"No man ever threw away life, while it was worth keeping."
Shocking"The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover more ope…"
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