All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery. — David Hume Copy Share Image
From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions. — 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
That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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 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
