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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.
discovery action motive
Charles Caleb Colton We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.
discovery heaven mystery
Charles Dickens We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
discovery people life-is
Alan Arkin But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.
discovery serendipity
Alan Alda Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
discovery bravery arrogance
Chogyam Trungpa The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.
discovery vaccines joy
Edward Jenner While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.
discovery irritated innocence
Edith Wharton Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
discovery achievement intellectual
David Hilbert [On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.
discovery despair age
David Hume For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.
topics until
Benoit Mandelbrot Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
topics philosopher boring
Brandon Sanderson ...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.
topics knows
Bruce Feiler Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.
topics facts belief
Ramez Naam Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.
topics debate hypothesis
Randa Abdel-Fattah When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
topics boring ireland
Ezra Pound There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
topics size survivor
George Stigler In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
topics poor should
Herman Melville Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.
topics speak mental-illness
Glenn Close It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness