Quote by David Hume
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature to

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

Other quotes by David Hume

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

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Nature
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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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I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. – William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

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Nature is the art of God. – Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, 1635

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Nature

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. – Eleonora Duse

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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson

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Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. Its tightening the belt, its learning how to do more with less. Thats a reality today, and weve got to do that in order to get the private sector growing. – Eric Cantor

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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. – Stephen Covey

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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

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