Quotes about David Hume

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

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Avarice, the spur of industry.

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In...

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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

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

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

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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from...

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

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the...

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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his...

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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

#David Hume