Nature Quote by David Hume Download Open image “Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.” — David Hume ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature Philosophy Strong
Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature. — Nalini Nadkarni Copy Share Image
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas. — Plato Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf… — Silvana de Mari Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
