In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
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