"Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the……" — David Hume
"Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion."
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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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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles…
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The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments…
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It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't…
— Joan Didion
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In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before…
— Walter Benjamin
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Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music
— Thom Yorke
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Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think,…
— Thomas George Bonney
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No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this…
— Daniel O'Connell
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify…
— Unknown Author
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Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has…
— John Quincy Adams
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