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When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken (David Hume Quotes)
The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation (David Hume Quotes)
A man posing for a painting (David Hume Quotes)
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause (David Hume Quotes)
The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable (David Hume Quotes)
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once (David Hume Quotes)
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them (David Hume Quotes)
Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man (David Hume Quotes)
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life (David Hume Quotes)
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science (David Hume Quotes)
But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country (David Hume Quotes)
Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy (David Hume Quotes)
Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered (David Hume Quotes)
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers (David Hume Quotes)
Of the world and drudgery of business, seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence (David Hume Quotes)
Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse (David Hume Quotes)
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude (David Hume Quotes)
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances (David Hume Quotes)
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 Quotes)
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions; but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion (David Hume Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious (David Hume Quotes)
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion (David Hume Quotes)
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press (David Hume Quotes)
The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity (David Hume Quotes)
Poets themselves, tho’ liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions (David Hume Quotes)
The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind (David Hume Quotes)
It were better, never to look beyond the present material world. By supposing it to contain the principle of its order within itself, we really assert it to be God; and the sooner we arrive at that divinity, the better (David Hume Quotes)
If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable (David Hume Quotes)
When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others (David Hume Quotes)