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Philosopher Quotes by David Hume
- I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a…
- Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
- Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.
- And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole…
- The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of…
- To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.
- Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey…
- Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
- The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to…
- How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the…
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