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Destruction World

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

- David Hume

Other quotes by David Hume

Beauty

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

- David Hume

Science Nature

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

- David Hume

Liberty

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

- David Hume

Beauty

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

- David Hume

Religion First

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

- David Hume

Beauty Mind

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

- David Hume

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