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David Hume Quotes
«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»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Miracles,
Reality,
Truth
| Keywords:
endeavors, miraculous, testimony
«Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
addresses, affections, captivated, captivates, captivating, eloquence, hearer, hearers, high-pitched, pitch, subduing
«The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
fertile, rankest, richest, shoots, uncultivated, weeds
«A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
propensities, propensity
«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»
«Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Reason,
Truth
| Keywords:
avidity, imperfections, revealed, seasoned
«Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Ambition,
Appearance
| Keywords:
cover, enterprises, incurable, incurables, inflexible
«Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature than the sentiment of benevolence in an eminent degree; and that a part at least of its merit arises from its tendency to promote the interests of our»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
arises, benevolence, bestow, eminent, promote, undeniable