Philosophical Quotes
1598 Philosophical quotes by 584 unique authors
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
— David Hume
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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
— David Hume
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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
— David Hume
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
— David Hume
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
— David Hume
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Men often act knowingly against their interest.
— David Hume
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
— David Hume
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
— David Hume
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The law always limits every power it gives.
— David Hume
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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
— David Hume
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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
— David Hume
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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
— David Hume
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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
— David Hume
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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
— David Hume
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Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and…
— Jonathan Ive
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
— Jesse Jackson
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
— William James
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Belief creates the actual fact.
— William James
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
— William James
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
— William James
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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
— William James
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
— William James
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
— William James
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
— William James
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
— William James
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