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Mankind Quotes by David Hume
- The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
- It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
- 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.
- In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,…
- I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other…
- To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
- Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief…
- The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be…
- Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.
- The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this…
- There is no They, Only Us.
- The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
- Justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind, and indeed is nothing but an artificial invention to…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
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- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams