David Hume Quotes

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David Hume

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : May 7, 1711

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.

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

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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.

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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

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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.

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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

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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.

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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

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Avarice, the spur of industry.

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