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philosophical men magic
David Hume Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?
philosophical growth divinity
David Hume Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
philosophical world advantage
David Hume No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
philosophical opinion certain
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.
philosophical discovery topics
David Hume THERE is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of any hypothesis, by a pretence of its dangerous consequences to religion and morality. When any opinion leads to absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be forborne; as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious.
philosophical men human-nature
David Hume Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
philosophical men interest
David Hume Men often act knowingly against their interest.
philosophical numbers competition
David Hume And what is the greatest number? Number one.
men perfection great-expectations
Charles Dickens The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
men years practice
Charles Dickens Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
Charles Dickens It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
Charles Dickens No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
Charles Dickens The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
Charles Dickens The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
Charles Dickens He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Charles Dickens Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
Charles Dickens I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
magic certainty i-can
Chris Bohjalian I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....
magic ponies stories
Chris Adrian If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
magic nerves method
Arnold Bennett There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
magic trying speech
Antonin Artaud I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
magic consideration force
Antonin Artaud If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
magical natural
Nnedi Okorafor I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.
magic doe absence
Bernard Cornwell The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
magic literacy aim
Alan Kay To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
magic invisible stills
Charles de Lint That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.