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Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
Beauty
Quality
Mind
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
Beauty
Mind
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume
Man
Philosophy
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
David Hume
Liberty
It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
David Hume
Blood
Healing
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
Belief
Man
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume
Design
Purpose
Intention
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
Fear
Hope
Joy
Poverty
Sorrow
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
David Hume
History
Knowledge
Beginning
Man
May
Respect
World
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
David Hume
Truth
Reason
Sense
Will
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume
Life
Importance
Man
Universe
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume
Agitation
Privilege
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
Truth
Argument
Friends
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
David Hume
Love
Hate
Nothing
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
David Hume
Christian
Being
First
Letters
Man
Sound