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Belief Quote by David Hume

“I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.” quote by David Hume — Download Open image

“I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.”

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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 be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with…

...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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“MIND & GRIND Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers”

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“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by worldly standards, views life from the standpoint of time and sense, and weighs everything in the balances of his own carnal making. But the man of faith brings in God, looks at everything from His standpoint,…

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“Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.”

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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves…

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