This avidity alone, of acquiring goods a... by David Hume

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

- David Hume

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Patriotism Road Power

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

- David Hume

Life

Custom is the great guide to human life.

- David Hume

Morality

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

- David Hume

Men

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

- David Hume

All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.

- David Hume

Truth Sense Will

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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