Quotes By David Hume

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

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

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

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

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

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

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.