"All this creative power of the mind amounts……" — David Hume
"All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience."
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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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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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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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The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
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