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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

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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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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. – David Hume

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Beauty
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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. – David Hume

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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. – Henri Poincare

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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. – Max Beerbohm

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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. – Alfred Adler

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. – Saint Augustine

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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We always think every other mans job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks. – Eden Phillpotts

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Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold nights arms. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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