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Certain Quotes by David Hume
- To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of…
- 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
- It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
- How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of…
- It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous…
- It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and…
- We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances…
- When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.
- We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our…
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