Causes Quotes by David Hume

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

— David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

— David Hume

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

— David Hume

From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.

— David Hume

We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there…

— David Hume

We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and…

— David Hume

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison,…

— David Hume

Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without…

— David Hume

The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe…

— David Hume

A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines…

— David Hume

Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be…

— David Hume

..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely…

— David Hume

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in…

— David Hume

I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the…

— David Hume

Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to…

— David Hume

Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…

— David Hume

Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government,…

— David Hume

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure…

— David Hume