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And what is the greatest number? Number one. (David Hume)
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. View quote
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions. View quote
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. View quote
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. View quote
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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. View quote
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Men often act knowingly against their interest. View quote
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. View quote
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Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. View quote
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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. View quote
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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. (David Hume)
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. View quote
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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. View quote
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause. View quote
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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. View quote
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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. View quote
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It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. View quote
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. View quote
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The law always limits every power it gives. View quote
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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. View quote
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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. (David Hume)
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. View quote
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Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. View quote
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Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. View quote
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. View quote
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David Hume

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Occupation: Scottish Philosopher
Born: April 26, 1711
Died: August 25, 1776
Quotes count: 195
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