Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence. — David Hume Copy Share Image
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the… — 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
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a… — 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
