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Letter "D" » David Hume Quotes
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«The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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Arts and Industries, Arts and Sciences, attainment, beasts, cultivated, exposed, fury, inclemency, legislator, legislators, modeled, ordained, patriots, sciences, societies, The Elements, The Fury, The Lonely
«The law always limits every power it gives.»
«It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.»
«A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Design,
Purpose,
Universe
| Keywords:
careless, thinker
«The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Events,
Miracles
| Keywords:
absurdity, all ages, detect, detected, forged, instances, propensity, Prophecies, sufficiently, supernatural
«The slaving poor are incapable of any principles»
«Custom is the great guide to human life»
«Avarice, the spur of industry»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Greed
| Keywords:
avarice, spur
«Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
concealed, deference, interruption, maintained, vehemence
«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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