Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all… — Quoted

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“Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.”

David Hume · Knowledge

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David Hume

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Nature

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Loneliness

David Hume

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

Truth

David Hume

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

Beauty