"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."
― David Hume
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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."
― David Hume |
"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 |
"Men often act knowingly against their interest."
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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 advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."
― David Hume
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"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."
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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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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous." ― David Hume |
"Custom is the great guide to human life."
― David Hume
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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."
― David Hume
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"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
― David Hume
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"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
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"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
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"Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions."
― David Hume
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"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."
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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."
― 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
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