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Inspirational Quotes by David Hume
- All knowledge degenerates into probability.
- And what is the greatest number? Number one.
- Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
- The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.
- The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
- Time is a perishable commodity.
- Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on…
- The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
- It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.
- The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.
- Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.
- Truth is disputable, not human taste.
- Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
- I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
- Men often act knowingly against their interest.
- Avarice, the spur of industry.
- Custom is the great guide to human life.
- Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
- This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
- It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
- No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
- Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento