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«It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.»
«All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cautious, hypothesis, obscurity, probability, supported, whatsoever
«Everything in the world is purchased by labor»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Doing Your Best
| Keywords:
purchased
«The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
armies, beaten, clergy, flattery, heights, patriotism, popularity, temporal, temporal power, treachery
«It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
all at once
«The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conclusion, Rules of, The Conclusion
«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»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Learning,
Miracles
| Keywords:
attest, attested, attesting, attests, delusion, good sense, miracle man, unquestioned
«Truth springs from argument amongst friends.»
«Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
principals, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyping
«The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
avenues, Avenue of, benefactor, benefactors, esteemed, inoffensive, obstruction, obstructions, open up, prospect, remove, sweetest, The Avenue
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