Quotes by David Hume

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous."

"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."

"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."

"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."

"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."

"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."

"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."

"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."

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

"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."

"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."

"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."

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

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

"There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it."

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

"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."

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

"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."

"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

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

"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."

"Men often act knowingly against their interest."

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

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

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty."

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty."

"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."

"The law always limits every power it gives."

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

"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."