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Things Quotes by David Hume
- Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is…
- And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,…
- The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or…
- I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.
- It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way…
- Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
- Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
- The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking…
- 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.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle