"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with……" — David Hume
"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."
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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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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style:…
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Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the…
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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years,…
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There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity.…
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
— George Herbert
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Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are…
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No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own…
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is…
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There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's…
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Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use…
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