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Dependence Quote by David Hume

“What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?” quote by David Hume — Download Open image

“What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?”

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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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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;…

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They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence…

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A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith…

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We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:…

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The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty, and its clarity is obtained by remembrance. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked, and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry, and its food…

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The safest hands to entrust all things is in the hands of the Almighty God.

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