David Hume
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"I never strove for anything but to make few people wiser."
David Hume
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"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
David Hume
"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."
David Hume
"There is no method of reasoning more common, yet more blamable."
David Hume
"All knowledge degenerates into probability."
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"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."
David Hume
"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
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"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."
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"Causation is not discoverable by reason."
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"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man."
David Hume