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Which Quotes by David Hume
- Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
- 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…
- What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
- It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
- 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…
- 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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