"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."
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"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."
― David Hume |
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
― David Hume |
"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."
― David Hume |
"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."
― David Hume
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"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."
― David Hume |
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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
― David Hume |
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
― David Hume |
"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue." ― David Hume |
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
― David Hume
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"No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed."
― David Hume
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"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."
― David Hume
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"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it."
― David Hume |
"And what is the greatest number? Number one."
― David Hume
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"The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason."
― David Hume |
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
― David Hume |
"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
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"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."
― David Hume
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