Date: January 1739
"Her enemy, therefore, is obliged to take shelter under her protection, and by making use of rational arguments to prove the fallaciousness and imbecility of reason, produces, in a manner, a patent under her hand and seal."
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Date: 1742, 1777
"Let me consult my own passions and inclinations. In them must I read the dictates of nature; not in your frivolous discourses."
preview | full record— Hume, David (1711-1776)