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Principles Quotes by David Hume
- Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions
- Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
- Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's…
- And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles…
- ..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they…
- 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…
- .. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final…
- We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and…
- 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…
- History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
- 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…
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- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
- The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem
- I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have… — Drew Barrymore
- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. — John Quincy Adams
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams