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Quotes by David Hume
- The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
- The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
- The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
- The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
- The law always limits every power it gives.
- There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
- There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
- This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
- Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
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