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“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Amidst all this bustle it is not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours. The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“Ignorance is ignorance, not a licence to believe what we like.”
― Bryan Magee, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays