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Them 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…
- 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…
- To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of…
- It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if…
- But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that…
- From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from…
- There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or…
- It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that…
- the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of…
- Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- 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…
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
- When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them…
- The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as unsafe…
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them
- Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.
- Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with aspirit of liberty; as superstition, on the contrary, renders men tame and…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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