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Very Quotes by David Hume
- 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
- To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected…
- 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…
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
- A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a…
- Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on…
- The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry.
- Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
- There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find…
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