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Letter "D" » David Hume Quotes
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«Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.»
«Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.»
«Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
displeases, displeasing
«But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Nature
| Keywords:
concurrence, knavery, Laws of nature, phenomena, signal, violation, violations
«It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
discount, discounting, knavery
«It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.»
«Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.»
«In simple terms, the data shows that in mammals each individual gene uses multiple different mechanisms to produce different forms of protein. In a sense, each 'gene' is actually multiple different genes,»
«I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.»
«Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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philosophical, surprising
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