Scottish - Philosopher | July 7, 1711 - August 25, 1776
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
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No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
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The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
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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.
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
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