David Hume

Puzzles

• Nothing is more surprising than the ___ with which the many are governed by the few.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to David Hume?

  • → I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
  • → No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
  • → We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
  • → We know what we are, but not what we may be.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to David Hume.

  • → Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
  • → Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
  • → Well begun is half done.
  • → Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to David Hume.

  • → Losing an illusion makes one wiser than finding a truth.
  • → And what is the greatest number? Number one.
  • → Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
  • → The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
  
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