« All Vivifying Quotes
·
David Hume's Page
Vivifying Quotes by David Hume
1 Vivifying quote by David Hume
More Quotes by David Hume
David Hume has 225 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
-
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
-
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
-
Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
-
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
-
I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
-
God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
-
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
-
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
-
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
-
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
-
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
See all 225 quotes by David Hume »
More Vivifying Quotes
Popular Vivifying quotes from across the collection:
-
At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his…
— Ann Radcliffe
-
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
— David Hume
-
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
-
But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is…
— Maria Montessori
-
The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which…
— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
-
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter,…
— Samuel Beckett
-
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as…
— David Shi
-
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this…
— Thomas Carlyle
See all Vivifying Quotes »
Browse David Hume Quotes by Category