tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60877666766133984172011-05-04T09:49:30.081+02:00compulsive running ... capital runningMartiannoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6087766676613398417.post-92214666730902928892011-02-17T20:35:00.003+01:002011-02-17T20:49:12.405+01:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KHEnMT4Rmmc/TV17WOYgw4I/AAAAAAAAWhM/1p6k4fNVDxg/s1600/495px-David_Hume.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KHEnMT4Rmmc/TV17WOYgw4I/AAAAAAAAWhM/1p6k4fNVDxg/s400/495px-David_Hume.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574747535502787458" /></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume"><span style="font-style:italic;">source</span></a><br /><br /><blockquote>Nature is always too strong for principle.</blockquote><br /><br />... written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume">David Hume</a> in his "An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding" in 1748. It's a nice example of how quoting can be distorting. He probably meant more or less the opposite of what one would at first think.<br /><br /><br />... and while we're at it ...<br /><br /><blockquote>Philosophy is useless, Theology is worse.</blockquote><br /><br />sang <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_knopfler">Mark Knopfler</a> in the song Industrial Disease <br /><br />... and at last this:<br /><br /><blockquote>Philosophy is like a damp wash cloth. You wonder who used it before you.... and where.</blockquote><br /><br />said Christine McWilliams<br /><br />okay.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6087766676613398417-9221466673090292889?l=hareheath.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Martiannoreply@blogger.com0