Scottish - Philosopher | July 7, 1711 - August 25, 1776
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
David Hume
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Men often act knowingly against their interest.
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And what is the greatest number? Number one.
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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.
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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
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Custom is the great guide to human life.
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It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
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