"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere……" — David Hume
"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
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216 Quotes by David Hume
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that…
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More Careless Quotes
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband…
— Honore de Balzac
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first…
— Robert Browning
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
— A. R. Ammons
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
— Ben Jonson
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
— Horace
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose…
— William Shakespeare
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect,…
— John of the Cross
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto…
— Michael Pollan
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