"The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever……" — David Hume
"The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder."
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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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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel…
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As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same…
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In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which…
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It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in.…
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you…
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the…
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Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were…
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I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me,…
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I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
— Salman Rushdie
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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt…
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