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Weakness, fear, melancholy, t...

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

David Hume 432 quotes

No man ever threw away life w...

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

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Any pride or haughtiness, is ...

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

David Hume 432 quotes

The mind is a kind of theater...

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

David Hume 432 quotes

Of all the animals with which...

Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

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When I shall be dead, the pri...

When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful in the grand fabric, as when they composed this individual creature. The difference to the whole will be no greater betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air. The one change is of more importance to me than the other; but not more so to the universe.

David Hume 432 quotes

When men are most sure and ar...

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

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Of all sciences there is none...

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

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Beauty in things exists in th...

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

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A man acquainted with history...

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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Men are much oftener thrown o...

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

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Every wise, just, and mild go...

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.

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Human Nature is the only scie...

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

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The heights of popularity and...

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

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The life of man is of no grea...

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

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Beauty, whether moral or natu...

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

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It's when we start working to...

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 seldom that liberty of ...

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

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Men often act knowingly again...

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

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This avidity alone, of acquir...

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume 432 quotes

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