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Great Quotes by David Hume
- Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
- I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a…
- 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…
- A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full…
- 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…
- In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present.…
- Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
- It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either…
- Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.
- The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
- It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But…
- Custom is the great guide to human life.
- A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
- The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by…
- Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that…
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