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Less Quotes by David Hume
- All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still…
- In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to…
- 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…
- A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the…
- That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
- All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of…
- That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen