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David Hume : Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man. # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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Ernesto Sábato : " "Fashion is ok in little things, like clothing, but in thought and art, it is abominable." " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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Raymond Hull : " He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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Charles M Schwab : " The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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George Foreman : " It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them. " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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William James : " The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated. " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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Dale Carnegie : " Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make. " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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Jonathan Swift : " When I behold this I sighed, and said within myself, "Surely mortal man is a broomstick!" Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, till the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk; he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, all covered with powder, that never grew on his head; but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, through the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity. Partial judges that we are of our own excellencies, and other men's defaults! " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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Alan Havhamess : " I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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Philip James Bailey : " Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art. " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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Alighieri Dante : " Nature is the art of God. " # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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David Hume: " Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." # Thoughts and Thinking # Beauty # Mind

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David Hume: " Custom, then, is the great guide of human life." # Custom # Customers # Life and Living

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David Hume: " It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." # Liberty

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David Hume: " History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature." # History and Historians # Principles # Change

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David Hume: " Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man." # Arts and Artists # Nature # Dress

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David Hume: " Truth springs from argument amongst friends." # Friends and Friendship # Truth # Argument

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David Hume: " I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am plac'd in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster, who not being able to mingle and unite in society, has been expell'd all human commerce, and left utterly abandon'd and disconsolate. Fain wou'd I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth; but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. I call upon others to join me, in order to make a company apart; but no one will hearken to me. Every one keeps at a distance, and dreads that storm, which beats upon me from every side. I have expos'd myself to the enmity of all metaphysicians, logicians, mathematicians, and even theologians; and can I wonder at the insults I must suffer? I have declar'd my disapprobation of their systems; and can I be surpriz'd, if they shou'd express a hatred of mine and of my person? When I look abroad, I foresee on every side, dispute, contradiction, anger, calumny and detraction. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; tho' such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others. Every step I take is with hesitation, and every new reflection makes me dread an error and absurdity in my reasoning. For with what confidence can I venture upon such bold enterprises, when beside those numberless infirmities peculiar to myself, I find so many which are common to human nature? Can I be sure, that in leaving all established opinions I am following truth; and by what criterion shall I distinguish her, even if fortune shou'd at last guide me on her foot-steps? After the most accurate and exact of my reasonings, I can give no reason why I shou'd assent to it; and feel nothing but a strong propensity to consider objects strongly in that view, under which they appear to me. Experience is a principle, which instructs me in the several conjunctions of objects for the past. Habit is another principle, which determines me to expect the same for the future; and both of them conspiring to operate upon the imagination, make me form certain ideas in a more intense and lively manner, than others, which are not attended with the same advantages. Without this quality, by which the mind enlivens some ideas beyond others (which seemingly is so trivial, and so little founded on reason) we cou'd never assent to any argument, nor carry our view beyond those few objects, which are present to our senses. Nay, even to these objects we cou'd never attribute any existence, but what was dependent on the senses; and must comprehend them entirely in that succession of perceptions, which constitutes our self or person. Nay farther, even with relation to that succession, we cou'd only admit of those perceptions, which are immediately present to our consciousness, nor cou'd those lively images, with which the memory presents us, be ever receiv'd as true pictures of past perceptions. The memory, senses, and understanding are, therefore, all of them founded on the imagination, or the vivacity of our ideas." # Death and Dying # Love # Friends and Friendship

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David Hume: " The whole is a riddle, an aenigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape, into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy." # Opinions # Philosophers and Philosophy # Age and Aging

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David Hume: " If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons." # Genius # Wealth # Arts and Artists

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David Hume: " Take any action allow’d to be vicious: Wilful murder, for instance. Examine it in all lights, and see if you can find that matter of fact, or real existence, which you call vice. In which-ever way you take it, you find only certain passions, motives, volitions and thoughts. There is no other matter of fact in the case. The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. You never can find it, till you turn your reflexion into your own breast, and find a sentiment of disapprobation, which arises in you, towards this action. Here is a matter of fact; but ’tis the object of feeling, not of reason. It lies in yourself, not in the object. So that when you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing, but that from the constitution of your nature you have a feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it. Vice and virtue, therefore, may be compar’d to sounds, colours, heat and cold, which, according to modern philosophy, are not qualities in objects, but perceptions in the mind[.]" # Action # Love # Politicians and Politics

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