Empiricism
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"I never strove for anything but to make few people wiser."
David Hume
Attributed
"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."
David Hume
Attributed
"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."
David Hume
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."
David Hume
"Causation is not discoverable by reason."
David Hume
Attributed
"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man."
David Hume
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge."
John Locke
"The great and chief end is the preservation of property."
John Locke
"The mind is a blank slate."
John Locke
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
John Locke
"Where there is no law, there is no freedom."
John Locke
"All mankind being all equal and independent."
John Locke
"Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others."
John Locke
"Man is naturally drawn to knowledge."
John Locke
"Those who understand not prayer know not the power of it."
John Locke
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
John Locke