David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry. ↗

— David Hume

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

— David Hume

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Custom is the great guide to human life. ↗

— David Hume

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. ↗

— David Hume

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Truth springs from argument amongst friends. ↗

— David Hume

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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. ↗

— David Hume

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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. ↗

— David Hume

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. ↗

— David Hume

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

— David Hume

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. ↗

— David Hume

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