Circumstances Quotes by David Hume

10 Circumstances quotes by David Hume

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Hume’s skeptical eye turns everyday events into questions about reason and feeling. These ten short excerpts provide a taste of his thoughtful approach to the forces that shape our lives.

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

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

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No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances…

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An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority,…

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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith,…

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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be…

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When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar…

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On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher…

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For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,…

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In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy…

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“Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.”

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“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.”

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All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it…

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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

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...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,…

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

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We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation…

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The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…

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The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

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Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the…

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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted…

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“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.”

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“They all make up new species of crime and bring unhappiness in their train. When I hear a man is religious , I conclude…

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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education…

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“But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve…

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