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Quote by David Hume
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natu

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume

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

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Nature
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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. – David Hume

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alone
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. – David Hume

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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. – Abu Bakr

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Truth cannot be defeated. – Edwin Louis Cole

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. – Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, 1911

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