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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their…
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or…
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no…
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.
— Peter Kreeft
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…
— John Stuart Mill
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"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in…
— Michael Shermer
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary…
— Adam Smith
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the…
— Anne Fadiman
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I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is…
— Christopher Hitchens
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