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Obvious Quotes by David Hume
- 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…
- It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
- What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and…
- And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,…
- The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
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