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Than Quotes by David Hume
- The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
- 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…
- Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
- That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
- No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the…
- Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
- Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
- Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
- The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
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