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One 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…
- Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
- And what is the greatest number? Number one.
- 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…
- The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments…
- These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as…
- We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on,…
- The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or…
- The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
- When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful…
- 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…
- If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should…
- The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
- A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
- Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
- When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this…
- It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
- The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking…
- Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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