59 ordspråk av David Hume
David Hume
David Hume föddes den May 7th 1711 och dog den 25 August 1776 - Scottish philosopher
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 Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. |
| Custom is the great guide to human life |
| Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. |
| Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. |
| Everything in the world is purchased by labor |
| Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous |
| Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous |
| He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances |
| He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances |
| Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition. |
| I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. |
| I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. |
| In simple terms, the data shows that in mammals each individual gene uses multiple different mechanisms to produce different forms of protein. In a sense, each 'gene' is actually multiple different genes, |
| It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. |
| It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work |
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Proverb (1469539 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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