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Dangerous Quote by David Hume

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“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

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“Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.”

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“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.”

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All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it…

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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

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...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,…

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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will…

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We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation…

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The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…

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The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

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Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the…

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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted…

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“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.”

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