".. that a rule, which, in speculation, may……" — David Hume
".. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive."
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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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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison…
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.
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The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
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It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock.…
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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces…
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the…
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I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to…
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