"The most lively thought is still inferior to……" — David Hume
"The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation."
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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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The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by…
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the…
— James A. Garfield
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— Lord Byron
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the…
— Al Pacino
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To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to…
— Peter Sellers
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Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise…
— Armond White
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It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary…
— Wyndham Lewis
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If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and…
— Maya Angelou
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Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the…
— Arthur Helps
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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense…
— Henry David Thoreau
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