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David Hume Nature

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Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

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David Hume Nature

David Hume | nature

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

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David Hume Nature

David Hume | nature

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.

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David Hume men

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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

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David Hume men

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Men often act knowingly against their interest.

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David Hume learning

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.

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David Hume learning

David Hume | learning

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

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David Hume knowledge

David Hume | knowledge

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.