David Hume

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

David Hume

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

David Hume

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

David Hume

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

David Hume

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

David Hume

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

David Hume

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

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.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

David Hume

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

David Hume

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

David Hume

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

David Hume

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

David Hume

David Hume

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

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

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.