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.

Quote by David Hume

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

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

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to...

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never...

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never...

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages,...

The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages,...

That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...

That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies...

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and...

The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and...

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself...

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself...

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we...

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we...

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this...

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most...

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most...

Everything in the world is purchased by labor

Everything in the world is purchased by labor

But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common...

But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common...

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it...

It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior...

It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior...