It's when we start working together that... by David Hume | We Heart Quotes

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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

Other quotes by David Hume

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

- 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

Belief Man

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

- David Hume

History

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

- David Hume

Agitation

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

- David Hume

Corruption

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

- David Hume

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