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When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness. — David Hume

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do? — Brit Hume

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds. — David Hume

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. — John Hume

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination. — David Hume

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. — Jean-Baptiste Say

God can intervene in the universe he created despite what David Hume says. — Norman L. Geisler

And I don't give a cow's dick what Hume said, science rules! — Sergio De La Pava

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. — Hume Cronyn

Question everything - ban nothing — Mick Hume

Reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions. — Steven Pinker

I don't mind playing absolute bastards ... I just don't want to play the grouch. — Hume Cronyn

Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions. — Edward Abbey

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative. — Brit Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them. — David Hume

Obtruded on us by the Scottish historians. [* Chron. Sax. p. 19.] [** W. Malms, p. 19.] — David Hume

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. — David Hume

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life. — David Hume

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions ... — David Hume

That a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive. — David Hume

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. — David Hume

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected. — David Hume

The Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books, a list that came to include almost every significant work of post-medieval Western philosophy. — David Hume

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

See you in another life, brotha. — Desmond Hume

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. — David Hume

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume

Thomas Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness. — David Hume

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit. — David Hume

It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be. — David Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life. — Basil Hume

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. — Brit Hume

And what is the greatest number? Number one. — David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations. — David Hume

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve. — Brit Hume

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately. — Brit Hume

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination. — John Hume

It's seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. — David Hume

Raki is bad enough, but it's nectar compared with pulque. — Fergus Hume

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness. — Gary Hume

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force. — Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism. — Brit Hume

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. — David Hume

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists. — Peter Kreeft

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible. — Gary Hume

Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity. — John Hume

CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there. — Brit Hume

behalf of Henry's suit are nauseous, — Martin A.S. Hume

[A person's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. — David Hume

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count? — Brit Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing. — John Hume

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants. — Gary Hume

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them. — Brit Hume

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure. — Gary Hume

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed. — David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. — David Hume

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest. — Joseph Hume

Time is a perishable commodity. — David Hume

Be a philosopher, but amid all your philosophy be still a man. — David Hume

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. — David Hume

When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence. — David Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured, — Brit Hume

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. — David Hume

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. — David Hume

We did not seek ideological confrontation. — John Hume

A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence. — David Hume

A man posing for a painting. — David Hume

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate. — David Hume

Truth springs from argument amongst friends. — David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. — David Hume

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery. — David Hume

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

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. — Joseph Hume

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice. — David Hume

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers. — David Hume

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once. — David Hume

Interest is the barometer of the state ... — David Hume

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

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised. — Gary Hume

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. — Basil Hume

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end. — David Hume

I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god. — David Hume

The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, — David Hume

The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation — David Hume

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded. — David Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them — David Hume

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so. — David Hume

I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids. — Hume Cronyn

Everything in the world is purchased by labor. — David Hume

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated. — Brit Hume

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. — David Hume

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody. — Brit Hume

[Rousseau is] the person whom I most revere both for the Force of [his] Genius and the Greatness of [his] mind [ ... ] — David Hume

This question depends upon the definition of the word, Nature, than which there is none more ambiguous and equivocal. — David Hume

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse. — David Hume

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. — Alexander Hume

To question reason is to trust it. — Mitch Stokes

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion — David Hume